Canada’s job rate declined, but remained stable last month and the same can be said for our region.
StatsCan says the national unemployment rate increased by just 0.1% to 6.6%
StatsCan analyst Vincent Ferrao says Northern BC’s unemployment is sitting at 4.7%, a .0.2% increase from this time, last year.
“We had a month of little change, employment with little change, we had 83,900 people working, compared with 84,300 a year ago,” he says.
Ferrao says retail and wholesale trade had a slight decline but, but it was made up for by increases in education services and business building.
“That counter-balanced the decline, on the whole, there was little overall change,” he says.
BC managed to buck the national trend by adding over a thousand jobs to lower the unemployment rate to 5.8%.
StatsCan reports 10,700 jobs were lost nationally, ending a two-month string of gains.
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