Unemployment Rate Rises

Friday, September 05, 2008 08:37 AM

Prince George, BC - The latest Statistics Canada labour force survey is out and the numbers for Prince George and the Cariboo are up.

The unemployment rate in PG for August is 8.7%, almost up 3% when comparing August of 2007 which was at 5.7%.

For the Cariboo, the jobless rate is 7.2% for this August, compared to last year's 5.7%.

In BC, the numbers show a slight decrease from July's 4.4%--it's now at 4.3%.

And Nationally, the rate remains steady at 6.1%.

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Posted on Friday, September 05, 2008 08:37 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: lostfaith on September 5 2008 11:24 AM

We actually had to pay someone to figure this out. Amazing.

I bet all they did was read the headlines every other day that said another mill closes it's doors.

Posted by: The_grandinquisitor on September 5 2008 12:19 PM

Students going back to school? Or not going back to school and finding themselves on welfare? Seasonal jobs ending?

Posted by: downnotout on September 5 2008 10:02 PM

wonder if they counted the Mackinzie area