Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
By RALPH ANSAMI
Iron County’s unemployment rate improved to 4.2 percent in October from 4.6 percent in September.
That wasn’t enough to pull the county out of the second worst job numbers in Wisconsin, however. Only Menominee County, at 4.4 percent, posted higher jobless numbers of the 72 counties in the state.
A year ago, Iron County was also at 4.2 percent.
Ashland County continues to make real strides, improving from 3.1 percent in September to 2.8 percent in October, according to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.
Price County is no longer the shining beacon for employment in the north, as the jobless rate was 3 percent in October, just a bit better than the 3.1 percent in September.
Vilas County went backward to 2.9 percent in October, after posting a 2.7 percent mark in September.
For Oneida County, there was also a minor dip, from 2.6 percent to 2.7 percent.
Wisconsin DWD Secretary Raymond Allen said 21 counties set or tied their all-time low jobless rates in October.
Wisconsin’s addition of 20,000 manufacturing jobs from October 2017 to this October ranked second nationally and was tops in the Midwestern states, Allen indicated.