evidence: With Wisconsin’s unemployment rate near historic lows and the number of jobs and workers reaching historic highs, Wisconsin’s labor market has had another record breaking year. Over the past 12 months, the state added 25,700 jobs to reach 3,035,100 jobs in July. This is down just slightly from the state’s record number of jobs – 3,048,000 – set in June. Job growth remains strong. This is also reflected in Wisconsin’s very low unemployment rate. Unemployment is currently 3.0% in July 2024 and has been below 3.5% since September 2021. [...] While economic opportunity is high for workers in the state, it is distributed unequally. Racial and geographic disparities are pronounced. Wisconsin’s well-documented racial disparity remains substantial and gravely concerning. Matching national levels of disparity, Black workers in the state are twice as likely to be unemployed as white workers. Geographically, the county unemployment rates across the state are quite disparate ranging from a low of 2.4% to a high of 6.1%. Again, that is a substantial gap, but it is also the lowest disparity separating high and low unemployment counties in Wisconsin since data has been available in 1990.