Wisconsin Unemployment Rate Unchanged in March at 2.9 Percent

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate remained at two-point-nine percent in March.  The Department of Workforce Development says private-sector employment decreased 45-hundred jobs from February while total non-farm employment lost 18-hundred jobs last month.  The state added 92-hundred non-farm jobs and 12-thousand-400 private-sector jobs from March of 2018 to March 2019.  Wisconsin’s labor force participation rate was 67-point-five percent last month.  The U-S unemployment rate in March was nearly a point higher than Wisconsin’s at three-point-eight percent.