Unemployment Up in Milwaukee Metro
The unemployment rate in Metropolitan Milwaukee crept up last month from the year before and jobs shrunk, the state Department of Workforce Development reported today.
The report showed the Milwaukee area rate inching up to 5.5% last month from 5.4% in February 2007. Five other of the state’s 12 metro areas had higher unemployment rates last month than the year before.
The four-county Milwaukee area had a loss of 1,900 jobs in the last 12 months. The Janesville, Racine and Wausau areas also had net payroll decreases in that period.
I’m sure that jacking up taxes to fix a budget shortfall will really help these folks out.
Well, maybe with the increased hospital tax, the hospitals will hire more nurses, doctors, aides and bureaucrats. That may decrease the unemployment rate
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