From the publisher: Milwaukee business community needs to embrace, celebrate diverse talent

As 2020 begins the Milwaukee region is in a war for talent. And, we’re losing.

We constantly hear from area business owners who say that their biggest challenge is finding the people that their companies need to grow.

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate is at 3.4%. That’s good news for workers, but it also demonstrates the challenge businesses here face in finding talent.

Here’s the bad news: economic growth in Wisconsin is weak, very weak. Wisconsin’s economy grew just 1.1% in the second quarter of 2019, ranking 43^rd in the country, according to the latest U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data. During the first quarter of 2019, the state’s economy also grew just 1.1%...