There’s predictable, but troubling, news on the local economy, as the Janesville-Beloit area now has a double-digit unemployment rate. The national average of 8.1% looks favorable by comparison.
Planners cannot keep up – a study on municipal mass transit between nearby towns was, and now surely is, immaterial. Getting people to and from work that way was destined to be expensive; providing stable, private sector work matters so much more than a public transit scheme.
http://gazettextra.com/news/2009/mar/06/local-jobless-rate-soars/