It had been another weak month for the U.S. economy as a whole, which added only eighteen thousand jobs nationally. But the state employment numbers looked much better: a net increase of ninety-five hundred jobs. “Today,” the statement read, “we learned that over 50 percent of U.S. job growth in June came from our state.” The talking point was picked up and distributed by GOP politicians, like Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, who told an audience in a Milwaukee suburb, “The labor report that came out last week had an anemic eighteen thousand created in this country, but half of them came here
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