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Amy Pechacek: “For every job seeker, there's 2.8 vacancies right now.”

Featuring: Amy Pechacek, Acting Wisconsin Secretary of Workforce Development

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Newsmakers: Wisconsin Workforce Updates from DWD Secretary-Designee Amy Pechacek

Published | Video Starts at 27:49

And right now the job market is really supporting that. As you know, with our worker quantity shortage, For every job seeker, there's 2.8 vacancies right now. So it's just making those connections and helping, you know, the economies continue to grow. So the legislature had been strongly critical of DWD during the pandemic related to the problems in the unemployment insurance program. (27:49–27:54)

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Asserts the current job market ratio of job seekers to vacancies.

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