Wisconsin’s unemployment rate continues to decline after a peaking at 14-point-one percent in April due to COVID-related layoffs.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says the state’s jobless rate fell from eight-point-six percent in June to seven percent in July. Employers added 25,500 private sector jobs last month. Workforce Development Secretary Caleb Frostman said, “we welcome the good news that Wisconsin continues to add jobs month over month, but Wisconsin is currently down over 216-thousand private-sector jobs over the year, with the vast majority of those declines occurring in the service providing sector.”
The unemployment rate was three-point-four percent in July of 2019.
