State Unemployment Holds Steady At 3.1 Percent

Wisconsin’s new unemployment rate is the same as the previous month. State officials said Thursday that the seasonally adjusted jobless rate for June was three-point-one percent, the same as May and just one-percentage point above the record low rate of three-percent from May through July of 1999 — and those were the lowest levels since state figures first became available in 1976. The Wisconsin jobless rate has remained well below the national rate for 30 years — and the new figure is one-point-three percent below the U-S rate for June of four-point-four percent.