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From WisBusiness.com ... -- Wisconsin's unemployment rate hit 8.8 percent in February, up 1.1 percentage points from the month before and just below the national rate of 8.9 percent. The state Department of Workforce Development says the February rate was 3.7 percentage points higher than the rate of 5.1 percent for Wisconsin in February of 2008. From January...

By WisBusiness Staff Wausau Homes and its affiliate WH Transportation have filed notice with the state about a total of 128 layoffs set to begin in May. Seventy-nine of the layoffs are occurring at Wausau Homes, including 22 layoffs in the engineering department and 44 layoffs of production/warehouse workers. WH Transportation is seeing 49 layoffs, including 35 truck drivers. The company laid off...

By Tammy McCubbin For WisBusiness.com During a visit to Milwaukee, former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer expressed optimism the ailing auto industry would rebound and the nation's economy would turn around under the leadership of the Obama administration “I think the industry will turn itself around,” Archer told a Marquette Law School audience as part of the “On the Issues with Mike Gousha”...