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Unemployment Nears 14 Percent

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Friday, January 08, 2010 08:58 AM

Prince George, B.C.- The  latest  unemployment numbers   show a near doubling of jobless compared to December of 2008.  The rate last month  in Prince  George was 13.6 %.

The Cariboo region  saw  a similar jump,  moving up to  12% from the 5.6% it had been the same month a year ago.

The Provincial numbers climbed to 8.4% up from 5.3%  and the national rate was 8.5% up from 6.6%  in December of 2008.

Job losses in the  forest industry are being  blamed for the  increase  in the  Prince George and Cariboo region.

 


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And some economist and the real estate people see a positive outlook? Propaganda.
And that's not including the ones who are not on E.I. anymore, and living off their retirement savings.
It will get much worse!
There is about a grand total of a handfull of people listed under "work wanted" in the paper. At 14% unemployed, this must mean that the total workforce is less than fifty people??
I'll have a sip of whatever you're drinking, woodchipper!
Or in the words of Gordo & The Disappearing Prime Minister in Ottawa " That is a good thing - because it could have been so much worse!" At least they still have a job.
Friends mother says lots of jobs here. "We are all working in this house." I swear people say things just to get on my nerves.
I never thought I would see the day the Rustad Mill would be closed and put a couple of hundred P.G. people out of work. I think Canfor is playing a game called lets break the UNION, as its looks like the Quesnel Mill will meet the same fate. I thank our privatly owned Mills for trying to keep running, and I hope you get so busy that you can hardly handle the work load. With all the Bug Killed wood, you would think someone with a BRAIN in management could think fo a way to use it, I would love to have some new cupbords made out of It or a bedroom suite ,turn it into furniture, turn it into something before its to late. All the furniture in the stores is made offshore and cracks when it dries out.