MacIver Lied! The Madison-based group, which publishes items supportive of conservative causes --
"When we asked MacIver to show us their math, spokesman Nick Novak responded:
"We used Bureau of Labor Statistics QCEW figures for each month from January 2011 to September 2012 (the most recent month available). To get to the number of 137,372, we simply subtracted the January 2011 jobs number from the September 2012 jobs number."
Novak provided a link to a BLS report that showed the two numbers.
But, this isn’t just a simple math problem. MacIver made two critical errors in their calculations.
Starting point
Walker took office at the beginning of January 2011. MacIver used the number for the end of January 2011. To properly measure the governor’s promise, you need to start with the number of jobs that existed at the start of his term. That is a difference of 65,401 jobs.
Here’s how it plays out the way the MacIver Institute calculated the numbers."
"The MacIver Institute posted an item that says Wisconsin has 137,372 more private sector jobs than when Gov. Scott Walker first took office, meaning that Walker is more than halfway to his goal of 250,000 jobs.
The jobs promise will be the No. 1 yardstick used to measure Walker’s performance as governor.
But the conservative group’s number is wrong, two times over.
MacIver started with the wrong month of data. That alone nearly doubled the number of jobs they claim were created under Walker.
They compounded their error by combining full and partial years of data -- even though they (like the governor himself) were told not to do so."
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