You may remember that I recently noted that Scott Walker posts very selective tweets about where Wisconsin ranks against other states but didn't tweet about our dead-last ranking three years running in business startup activity:
Here's another data point that dovetails with the 50th-place ranking for entrepreneurial activity which also will never appear on Walker's election-year twitter feed:
On a 'brain-gain ' index, Wisconsin ranks 44th, with only PA, NY, NJ, OH, CA and MI attracting fewer new residents with college degrees than Wisconsin:
Wisconsin would likely rank higher on the Kaufmann start-up business activity index if the state were attracting more college grads who wanted to start businesses, yet years of Walker's heavily-ideologcal approach to attracting business - - deregulation, tax breaks, "Open for Business" billboards, a Wal-er-created (but still-dysfunctional) business development state agency and a compliant legislature embracing the same failed tools - - isn't moving the needle.
And Walker has cut or diminished state science staffing as well as
climate science information and other environmental services statewide, as I note throughout this post - - so why would people with science degrees think about Wisconsin as their career-friendly new home?
But while Governor Clueless touted for election-year credit on his Twitter feed a CEO magazine's feel-good-opinions-about-Wisconsin - - noted yesterday, here - -you won't find him tweeting about this data-driven, 50-state comparative business ranking showing Wisconsin frozen in the 50th spot - - again - - in the always-significant business category: entrepreneurial, start-up activity.
WISCONSIN ONCE AGAIN RANKS LAST IN KAUFFMAN STARTUP ACTIVITY INDEXAnd you'll never see him acknowledge that Wisconsin now has the second-worst roads in America or comes in 12th on a well-water contamination index.
On a 'brain-gain ' index, Wisconsin ranks 44th, with only PA, NY, NJ, OH, CA and MI attracting fewer new residents with college degrees than Wisconsin:
Wisconsin has one of the lowest shares of non-native college graduates that relocated from other states. Consequently, Wisconsin must instead ask itself is what can be done to attract college educated people from outside Wisconsin?The data and study were culled from this UW-Madison site.
Wisconsin would likely rank higher on the Kaufmann start-up business activity index if the state were attracting more college grads who wanted to start businesses, yet years of Walker's heavily-ideologcal approach to attracting business - - deregulation, tax breaks, "Open for Business" billboards, a Wal-er-created (but still-dysfunctional) business development state agency and a compliant legislature embracing the same failed tools - - isn't moving the needle.
And Walker has cut or diminished state science staffing as well as
climate science information and other environmental services statewide, as I note throughout this post - - so why would people with science degrees think about Wisconsin as their career-friendly new home?
