As dismal jobs news continues in Wisconsin, out-of-state casinos hiring hundreds

There’s more dismal employment news in today’s papers:

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that new claims for unemployment insurance benefits in Wisconsin are up 15% from the same time last year.

• The Kenosha News reports a closure and layoffs at two more local companies.

In the meantime, two big employers are holding job fairs looking for hundreds of new employees in Indiana and Florida. Coincidentally, both of those opportunity-rich employers are – you guessed it – casinos.

More proof of the positive difference the Menominee casino – with its 3,000-plus good jobs and billion-dollar economic benefits – can make for Wisconsin.

Support more Wisconsin jobs by supporting casino competition and signing the online petition.

Kenosha County's bleak unemployment news highlights need for casino jobs

There's alarming unemployment news out of Kenosha County - and it shows just how much the Menominee casino's 3,000-plus good-paying jobs are needed in Southeast Wisconsin.

Today's Kenosha News reports that local jobless claims for the week ending Dec. 6 are up a whopping 84% from last year. That's not all - as job listings have plummeted, the number of unemployed people and Kenosha County residents requiring food stamps and other public assistance has skyrocketed.

Sounds like it's time for some positive economic development and job creation.

You can read the full article here.

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Competition would bring good jobs at a time Wisconsin needs them

With unemployment claims skyrocketing in Wisconsin and nationally, it seems like a good time to point out that the Menominee casino in Kenosha will create 3,000 good jobs – with family-supporting wages and benefits – for Wisconsin residents. That’s in addition to the 1,000-plus good union construction jobs building the facility will create.

Good jobs when Wisconsin needs them. That’s another great reason to support casino competition in our region.

Casino competition will bring good jobs an economic support to Wisconsin – help make it happen by signing the online petition.