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Jobless rate for Wisconsin’s African Americans is highest in the nation, report says

According to the COWS report, “The State of Working Wisconsin 2015,” Wisconsin has the highest unemployment rate for African-Americans in the U.S., at 19.9 percent. That’s 4.6 times as high as the state’s white workers, who have a 4.3 percent unemployment rate, COWS said.