Wisconsin unemployment in April was 14% and still rising

The unemployment rate in Wisconsin has jumped from 3.1% in March to 14.1% in April, according to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. The national unemployment rate for April is 14.7%. Another 2.4 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits for the week ending May 16, bringing the total number of first time applicants to 38.6 million since the Covid-19 pandemic began impacting the nation's economy. In the month of April, there was a total of 437,359 unemployed people in…