Report Release: Is WEDC's Job Impact Fairly Distributed?

Thursday Media Call to release report which raises questions about political and geographic preference in WEDC's jobs numbers.

TELECONFERENCE FOR WISCONSIN MEDIA

Thursday 10:30 A.M.

Statewide: Citizen Action of Wisconsin is releasing a new report on the performance of Governor Walker’s privatized jobs agency, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, which finds geographic disparities and troubling political correlations. The report will be released Thursday morning on a statewide media call.

Joining the call to discuss the implications of the findings will be Senate Democratic Leader Chris Larson and State Representative Sandy Pasch.

This report includes new data self reported by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation showing job impact by county, region and legislative district. The report finds a large disparity in job impact between regions of Wisconsin and legislative districts.

WHAT: Teleconference to discuss report on WEDC's geographic disparities and political correlations.

WHEN: 10:30 AM., Thursday, February 20, 2014

WHO:

--Robert Kraig, Executive Director, Citizen Action of Wisconsin

--State Senator Chris Larson (Senate Democratic Leader)

--State Representative Sandy Pasch

--Kevin Kane, Lead Organizer, Citizen Action of Wisconsin (Report Lead Author)

More info [email protected] 414-550-8280