Unemployment in P.G. Slips
Friday, April 4, 2014 @ 9:03 AM
Prince George, B.C.- Unemployment in Prince George was 5.5% last month, down from the 5.7% recorded in March of 2013. There were 50,100 people employed in Prince George last month.
In the Cariboo region, the rate slipped to 6.1% down from the 6.7% recorded the same month a year ago. Statistics Canada’s Vincent Ferrao says the gains were in retail and wholesale jobs.
Provincially, Ferrao says “it was a good month for BC”. The Unemployment rate was 5.8% down from the 7.1% mark in March of 2013.
Nationally, the unemployment rate settle in at 6.9%, down slightly from the 7.3 % in March of last year.
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I can never figure out these statistics.
If you take out all people in Prince George under the age of 15 and all over the age of 65 you would take approx. 30% out of the workforce. This would leave approx. 50,000 people who were in an age group that could be working.
So that means that every person in Prince George between the age of 15 and 65 would have a job. Highly unlikely. Figures based on a population of 71,000.
Perhaps they mean the Regional District of Fraser Fort George as opposed to Prince George. Who knows.
It also means there’s 2800 people without a job who want one. So makes me wonder how come there are so many nice foreign workers at the major coffee chain if there are 2800 people looking for a job. Or does it really mean that everyone who wants a job has a job, and there’s about 2800 people who could work but don’t want to for various reasons such as break-up, seasonal workers who plan on spending the summer doing nothing but collecting EI. In which case the work force needs to be adjusted to just those who want to work.
More people with humanities studies bagging groceries.
Or there could be a number of people who make more on EI than they would slinging hot cups of joe.
nawwww they all moved to Ft McMurray
Lots of homeless people in Kelowna and Penticton. Maybe they can be hired as greeters (ala Walmart) at the airport to greet those Mexicans and Caribbean guys who come to BC to pick fruit every year.
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