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Wisconsin’s job market has made a strong recovery from the pandemic overall, with higher total employment in 2023 than ever before and an unemployment rate that is below the national average. The recovery has been inconsistent, however, with employment in a majority of Wisconsin counties still lower in 2023 than in 2019 and some sectors including manufacturing lagging pre-pandemic employment levels despite national growth.

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