Wisconsin Unemployment Rate Inches Up to 2.9 Percent in June

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate inched up a tenth of a point in June to two-point-nine percent.  The Department of Workforce Development says the state added 19-hundred total non-farm jobs in June while private-sector jobs decreased by 23-hundred last month.  Wisconsin gained nearly 12-thousand non-farm jobs and 11-thousand-200 private-sector positions from June of 2018 to June of 2019.  Wisconsin’s labor participation rate was 67-point-two percent in June.  The U-S jobless rate was three-point-seven percent last month.