Walker-led WI economy stalled, unattractive, report finds

Well, if as Republican Gov. Scott Walker did with ideological and partisan-power retaining motivations - - you slash the state's cornerstone UW system budget and attack its historic mission - - the very reasons which drew students and faculty to the state - - and you degrade the state's urban centers, and its environmental legacy and transportation alternatives which attract young millennials and families and entrepreneurs - - and you intentionally diminish women's right to choose, and unfettered voting and honest public policy approaches to clean air, fresh water and climate change - - then of course your economy will stall as people look to other states while rejecting the unappealing product you put out every day as a matter of policy and intent, a new comprehensive report confirms.

As I have observed often on this blog - - one two examples from May, 2015, linked here:

A couple of days, when analyzing policies of Walkerite Republicans that make Wisconsin unattractive, I'd written:

It would not surprise me if Wisconsin's population gain slows or plateaus as a result of these punitive, small-minded and overtly hostile GOP programs, guaranteeing Wisconsin's long-term status as a low-wage, slow-to-no-new job growth entrepreneurial and lifestyle backwater.

Not to mention earlier posts:

How much evidence do you need to grasp the damage our 'Midwestern nice" presidential poseur-in-chief has added to Wisconsin's stalled economy through punitive, trickle-down fiscal 'planning' - - damage he heaped on top of a national recession recovery that is bypassing the state on his watch?

Report: Wisconsin worst in nation on shrinking middle-class

What you/we/he are left with is a low-wage, slow-growth, atrophied, fossilized and corporately-polluted backwater which Republicans can more easily dominate through gerrymandering, voter ID and off-year election 'successes' - - a Wisconsin turned partisan red with its electoral college votes more reliably in the GOP camp, but which remains pessimistically blue in mood and outlook.