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Guest opinion: Rural Wisconsin workers lose health insurance twice as fast as before the pandemic

22+ hour, 4+ min ago  (409+ words) Wisconsin's unemployment rate sits near a historic low, but for thousands of rural residents the link between a layoff and losing health insurance has never been stronger. Almost all that vulnerability sits outside our cities. In Wisconsin's 46 nonmetropolitan counties, the…...

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