Midweek Reading

Oops: The Texas Miracle That Isn't
Subsidizing The Corporate 1 Percent
The Baloney Detection Kit
The Shocking Numbers Behind Corporate Welfare
Formula For Measuring Poverty Dates To 1963
You Can't Lure Entrepreneurs With Tax Cuts
Fortune 500 Companies Receive $63 Billion In Subsidies
The Rent Seeker, Posing As Visionary
The Costs Of Bad 401(K) Plans
Obamacare Critics Still Just Tell One Side Of The Jobs Story
Whole Foods: America's Temple Of Pseudoscience
Here's How Much Your State Is Losing If It Didn't Expand Medicare
What's Good For American Corporations Isn't Necessarily Good For Americans

Milwaukee: Open For Business

Who would have thought (considering its relatively small size and after listening to Scott Walker talk about how scary Milwaukee is) that Milwaukee is well-represented with Fortune 500 companies.

[h/t Milwaukee Stat & The Political Environment]

And, just as a reminder/primer on all the widely-known companies that just so happen to be from Wisconsin, here's a partial list:

• Johnson Controls
• Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
• Manpower Inc.
• Kohl's Corp.
• GE Healthcare
• American Family Insurance Co.
• S.C. Johnson & Sons Inc.
• Menard Inc.
• Harley-Davidson
• Rockwell Automation
• Roundy's Inc.
• Miller Brewing Co.
• Fiserv Inc.
• WE Energies
• ShopKo Stores Inc.
• Kohler Co.
• Briggs & Stratton Corp.
• Humana Insurance Co.
• Snap-On Inc.
• Land's End 
• Aurora Health Care Inc.
• Quad/Graphics
• A.O. Smith Corp.
• Kwik Trip Inc.
• Famous Footwear
• Blue Cross & Blue Shield United
• Jockey International Inc.
• Sargento Foods Inc.
• Milwaukee Electric Tool Corp.