{"id":656,"date":"2004-10-26T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=656"},"modified":"2004-10-26T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:00:58","slug":"the_milwaukee_j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Job Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/wsjgate?subURI=%2Farticle%2F0%2C%2CSB109865791924454121%2Demail%2C00%2Ehtml&#038;nonsubURI=%2Farticle%5Femail%2F0%2C%2CSB109865791924454121%2DIBjfINhlaR3n52qaX2IaqqJm4%2C00%2Ehtml\">Bob Davis &#038; Jon E Hilsenrath<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Milwaukee workers like Mr. Konieczny &#8212; with newfound opportunities and profound ambivalence about them &#8212; say a lot about the state of the economy and the presidential campaign. After considerable hesitation, the economy began to produce more jobs about a year ago, as President Bush points out at every opportunity. But many of those jobs don&#8217;t pay as much or offer as much security as the manufacturing jobs on which Milwaukee once depended, a point Democratic challenger John Kerry makes just as often.<br \/>\nThe economy is behaving differently than in the past, and government snapshots give each candidate facts by the dozen to support his case. Mr. Bush likes a survey of households that shows more jobs now than the day he took office; Mr. Kerry likes a survey of employers that shows fewer. Mr. Bush says the new jobs are good ones; Mr. Kerry says they&#8217;re not. The murkiness of the statistics and politicians&#8217; propensity to stretch the facts create a confusing picture as the election nears. But the outcome depends less on the dueling statistics than on what voters in battleground states experience and think about the economy.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Davis &#038; Jon E Hilsenrath: Milwaukee workers like Mr. Konieczny &#8212; with newfound opportunities and profound ambivalence about them &#8212; say a lot about the state of the economy and the presidential campaign. After considerable hesitation, the economy began to produce more jobs about a year ago, as President Bush points out at every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}