Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:36 AM and sunset 8:26 PM for 14h 50m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 13.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1969, after the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step onto the Moon’s surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.
Did you think there was no good news to mention? If so, then you were mistaken. Sarah Lehr reports the Number of jobs in Wisconsin reaches record high as unemployment hovers near record lows (‘The nation’s economy has been seeing job gains for more than 2 years’):
Wisconsin’s labor force is continuing its post-pandemic expansion, the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.
The total of number of nonfarm-related jobs across Wisconsin grew to more than 3 million as of June 2023.
That’s a record high and an increase of about 52,900 jobs compared to a year prior, according to an analysis of the preliminary numbers by Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development. Since May, the state added 6,900 nonfarm jobs, the estimate shows.
“Businesses continue to hire and those that do get laid off aren’t laid off for very long, so it’s pretty strong jobs market still here in Wisconsin,” Dennis Winters, DWD’s chief economist, said Thursday.
The state is bigger than the city, and many jobs in the state have wages higher than those in the city. And yet, and yet, it is better for the city that Wisconsin does well than that Wisconsin does poorly.
Employment trends are moving favorably overall, and that’s a reason for sober-minded optimism.
Dogs in Japanese Offices Aim to Keep Owners Happy: