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Melissa Hughes: “Wisconsin has 9,400 manufacturing companies, which…”

Featuring: Melissa Hughes, Secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

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Newsmakers: Melissa Hughes - CEO, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation

Published | Video Starts at 19:06

So let me put it in a little bit of context, because this is fun, Steve. This is the things I'm learning about Wisconsin right now. So Wisconsin has 9,400 manufacturing companies, which translates to 475,000 jobs. So putting 5,000 jobs, and we're not 100% sure about that number. It's a monthly number that kind of puts that in context. 5,000 on a base of 475,000. (19:06–19:14)

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