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Noon Wednesday: COVID-19 and Wisconsin's Economy

By Marisa Wojcik | Here & Now

April 23, 2020

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The Department of Workforce Development announced this week it will be sending unemployment benefits to more than 154,000 people as Wisconsin's jobs take a huge hit due to conditions from COVID-19. Joe Peterangelo, a senior researcher from the Wisconsin Policy Forum, joins us to talk about what this means for the state's economy.

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