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Although most people associate Milwaukee's reputation with its breweries, today companies like [[Miller Brewing]] employ less than one percent of the city's workers. Milwaukee's reputation as a blue collar town is more accurate, however, with 22 percent of the workforce involved in manufacturing -- second only to [[San Jose, California|San Jose, CA]] and far higher than the national average of 16.5%. Service and managerial jobs are the fastest growing segments of the Milwaukee economy, and healthcare makes up 27% of all service jobs in the city.

Milwaukee is headquarters to six [[Fortune 1000]] manufacturers and six Fortune 1000 service companies. Among these are [[Briggs & Stratton]], [[Harley-Davidson]], [[Johnson Controls]], [[Manpower Inc.]], [[MMarshall &I Ilsley]], [[Northwestern Mutual]], [[Rockwell Automation]], [[Roundy's]] and ,[[Wisconsin Energy]]. Milwaukee also has a large number of financial service firms, particularly those specializing in mutual funds, and a disproportionate number of publishing and printing companies.

== Arts, Culture and Sports ==