embedtek in hartland committed to creating up to 72 more jobs on friday.

embedtek in hartland committed to creating up to 72 more jobs on friday. a & b process systems in stratford hired 50 more people over the past year and greenheck in schofield added 209 jobs since 2011. these are just the employers i visited in the past few days. throughout the past year, we helped amazon.com expand and create up to 1,250 jobs here in wisconsin. emco chemical distributors moved up from illinois with about 187 jobs. hanna cylinders announced the same thing and brought 105 jobs to our state. all three of these companies moved into kenosha county. [ applause ] these are just a small sample of the many good news stories showing wisconsin is going back to work. [ applause ] this is a stark contrast to the negative job outlook of the past. during my predecessor's last term, wisconsin lost more than 133,000 jobs and lost more than 27,000 businesses. in 2009, the unemployment rate peaked at 9.2%. during that same year, wisconsin's ranking in chief executive magazine's best and worst states for business was 43rd. in 2009, a survey of employers by th