September 2018 unemployment rates declined from one year ago in 71 of Wisconsin's 72 counties, with 23 counties setting or tying their all-time record low unemployment rate for any month.
The state Department of Workforce Development reports four counties had unemployment rates below two percent, Iowa, Lafayette, Dane and Taylor.
The state's highest rate is 5.5 percent in Menominee county.
State labor economist Mitchell Rupp in Wausau talks about this region's numbers...
"...Forest is at 3.6(percent)....Langlade is at 3.0...Lincoln is at 2.4...Oneida is at 2.6...and Vilas is at 2.7....."
Price county's rate is 3.1 and Iron county has the state's second highest rate at 4.6.
Rupp says all the counties in the north saw unemployment numbers drop about a half-percentage point from one year ago.
While the jobless numbers are low, some experts have said the poverty rate has remained nearly the same due to part-time work and lower wages.
Seventeen of Wisconsin's 32 largest cities set or tied their lowest September unemployment rate on record.
The lowest unemployment rate the U.S. ever achieved was 1.2 percent in 1944 during World War II.
