Minnesota tops Wisconsin on average wages by $5,000 a year, Mary Burke says
"The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota" under Gov. Scott Walker’s policies.
"The typical Wisconsin worker makes $5,000 less each year than our neighbors in Minnesota" under Gov. Scott Walker’s policies.
"Already in Wisconsin we have seen fewer people pursuing education as a career" due to the Act 10 collective bargaining law.
"Graduation and third-grade reading scores are up in the state since I took office."
Says opponent Mary Burke told reporters she would have "required workers to give up bargained-for healthcare and retirement benefits like Gov. Walker."
Milwaukee has seen "an uptick in violence" since 2010, and "the only period of calm we get is when winter sets in."
"The average person who gets the minimum wage in America is 35 years old."
"Explosive growth in Medicare" is the reason federal deficit spending is predicted to top $1 trillion again after falling to $600 billion annually.
President Barack Obama’s budget threatens national security by proposing "an Army of fewer personnel than we had before Pearl Harbor."
"In 2013 we had the largest, the best, private sector job growth we’ve had in this state since the 1990s."
"Typical minimum wage earners in America are teenagers living with their parents in middle class families."
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s repeal of a 2009 law has left Wisconsin as "one of five states without an equal pay law protecting women from…
"Drone technology now allows an individual to be recorded in their homes by drones as small as birds and immediately uploaded to the internet."