What is the current wi unemployment rate?”
It’s official: This recession is the worst in a generation in Wisconsin. The state’s unemployment rate rose to 9.4% in March, the Department of Workforce Development reported Thursday. March unemployment skipped past February’s 8.8%, and surpassed the national rate for the first time since June 2007. The U.S. unemployment rate was 9% in March. Wisconsin lost a total of 8,700 non-farm jobs last month and has shed more than 112,000 jobs since March 2008.