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Align Wisconsin presentation: Racine needs targeted recruiting and workforce intermediaries to close long-term unemployment gap
Summary
Jeff Neubauer of Align Wisconsin told the council the city has been above the state unemployment rate for decades and estimated that roughly 441–467 more residents in targeted central tracts need jobs to reach parity; he urged the city to fund a recruiter and partner employers, schools and training providers.
Jeff Neubauer, founder and CEO of Align Wisconsin, told the Racine Common Council on Nov. 4 that the city’s unemployment gap is a long-running structural problem that will not correct itself without targeted intervention.
Using city and county data, Neubauer said Racine has been above the state unemployment rate for roughly 35 years and highlighted a metric of 441 (previously cited in June) as an example of the scale of people who would need to gain employment to reach the state rate.…
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