Replacing Factories With Jails: Just 44% of Milwaukee’s Black Men in Workforce

City has lost three-fourths of its manufacturing jobs since 1960s MILWAUKEE—Wisconsin’s economic problems are only deepening the political crisis for Gov. Scott Walker, already the target of a massive recall campaign that gathered 1.1 signatures from Wisconsinites. Despite Walker’s pledge to preside over the creation of 250,000 jobs by 2015, Wisconsin has lost jobs for the past six …

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