MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s unemployment rate remained at 5.2 percent in December, unchanged from November. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development reported Thursday that the state added 7,600 private sector jobs from November to December. The unemployment rate is Wisconsin’s lowest since the economic crash in September 2008. The national unemployment rate was 5.6 percent in December. Reggie Newson, secretary of the Department of Workforce Development, says the latest figures show a “trajectory of job growth in Wisconsin.”
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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