{"id":6369,"date":"2015-03-06T18:01:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T10:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=6369"},"modified":"2015-03-06T18:01:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T10:01:04","slug":"wisconsin-and-minnesota-a-one-sided-political-competition-msnbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/06\/wisconsin-and-minnesota-a-one-sided-political-competition-msnbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin and Minnesota: A One-Sided Political Competition &#124; MSNBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nearly five years later, one of these two states is doing quite well. Policy.mic had an interesting report this week.<br \/>\nSince 2011, Minnesota has been doing quite well for itself. The state has created more than 170,000 jobs, according to the Huffington Post. Its unemployment rate stands at 3.6% \u2013 the fifth-lowest in the country, and far below the nationwide rate of 5.7% \u2013 and the state government boasts a budget surplus of $1 billion. Forbes considers Minnesota one of the top 10 in the country for business.<br \/>\nAs Patrick Caldwell recently explained very well, Minnesota\u2019s gains come on the heels of tax increases on Minnesota\u2019s top 2% and higher corporate taxes, both of which state Republicans said would crush Minnesota\u2019s economy. As for their neighbors to the east:<br \/>\nBy a number of measures, Wisconsin hasn\u2019t fared as well as Minnesota. As the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal reports, Wisconsin\u2019s job growth has been among the worst in the region, and income growth is one of the worst in the country. It has a higher unemployment rate than Minnesota. And the budget is in bad shape.<br \/>\nBack in January, the editorial board of LaCrosse Tribune wrote, \u201cThe governors of Wisconsin and Minnesota each presented their versions of new year\u2019s resolutions in various media interviews last week\u2026.Which approach is better? As we enter the new year, Minnesota is clearly winning by a long shot.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/wisconsin-and-minnesota-one-sided-political-competition?cid=sm_fb_maddow\">Wisconsin and Minnesota: A One-Sided Political Competition | MSNBC<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly five years later, one of these two states is doing quite well. Policy.mic had an interesting report this week. Since 2011, Minnesota has been doing quite well for itself. The state has created more than 170,000 jobs, according to the Huffington Post. Its unemployment rate stands at 3.6% \u2013 the fifth-lowest in the country, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/06\/wisconsin-and-minnesota-a-one-sided-political-competition-msnbc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wisconsin and Minnesota: A One-Sided Political Competition &#124; MSNBC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}