BizTracker: First quarter 2019

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Wisconsin companies exported

$5.42 billion

in goods during the first quarter of 2019, a 0.66% drop from Q1 of 2018, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.


The City of Milwaukee’s population decreased by

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1,880

last year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.


Wisconsin’s unemployment rate was

2.8%

in April, a record low for the state.

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Tourism generated a total of

$5.7 billion

in business sales to the greater Milwaukee area in 2018, according to the Wisconsin Department of Tourism

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Wisconsin’s real gross domestic product grew

2.5%

in 2018, the second-largest increase in the Midwest and the state’s strongest year of economic growth since 2010.

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