This Labor Day, it is heartening to note that jobs – especially high-income jobs – are returning to Wisconsin.
Key economic sectors, including manufacturing and high-tech, are rebounding and developing. Wisconsin’s businesses, workers and government deserve credit.
The state’s July unemployment rate of 4.6 percent was better than last year’s rate of 4.8 percent and well below the national rate of 5.2 percent.
Wisconsin has to do more to invest in existing high-tech industries and attract others. While Madison, with its university and highly-educated workforce, is a natural draw for high-tech business, other areas of Wisconsin can compete through tax and other incentives.