MADISON, Wis. (WSAU-Wheeler News) — Unemployment rates went up in January in all 12 Wisconsin metro areas, and in all 72 counties throughout the Badger State.
Preliminary figures were issued today by the state’s workforce development agency, showing that actual un-adjusted jobless rates ranged from three-point-nine percent in the Madison metro to six-point-six in Racine. County un-adjusted rates ranged from three-point-six percent in Dane County to eleven-percent in Menominee, Door, and Bayfield counties. All were higher than December, but lower than a year ago as signs of the post-recession recovery continued.
Today’s report also showed that Metro Milwaukee lost an estimated 27-hundred jobs in January, while the Appleton area gained 17-hundred on a seasonally-adjusted basis. The state as a whole reported a modest gain of 600 jobs, while its adjusted unemployment rate dropped to five-percent — the lowest since August of 2008 as the Great Recession was just taking hold.
