Unemployment Slips Slightly in P.G.

Friday, March 12, 2010 07:38 AM

Prince George, B.C.-Unemployment in Prince George was 12.3% last month, down from 12.9% recorded in January, but still nearly 5% points higher than it had been in the same month in 2009.

The numbers are pretty much the same for the Cariboo region.

Provincially, the February rate was 7.7%, down .4 of a percentage point from January.

Nationally, the rate slipped slightly ( .1%) to 8.2%

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Posted on Friday, March 12, 2010 07:38 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: He spoke on March 12 2010 9:13 AM

Must be people running out on their EI.

Posted by: metalman on March 12 2010 9:55 AM

Exactly, he spoke. The government and their statistics, a study in the art of inaccurate statements and predictions, with a result of useless information.
metalman.

Posted by: Resident on March 12 2010 11:05 AM

Maybe IPG hired a few more bodies. With all their hype about connections made at the olympic you would think unemployment would be single digit in PG.
Just think, if we didn't have IPG another $1,000,000.00 plus per year could be spent repairing the roads.

Posted by: He spoke on March 12 2010 2:27 PM

With out IPG, we would be a town with a very bleak future. At least with IPG, we keep throwing ourselves infront of world investors. We all know us Canadians don't invest in ourselves, we need foreigners to come in and do it for us.

If I had a million dollar surplus in the budget, it definitely will not be going into fixing roads. People are gonna squawk about it anyway. I would be putting the money into creating more opportunities, and tax them.

Posted by: mwk on March 12 2010 4:34 PM

These comments are too funny. You make it sound like a Million dollars is all the money in the world. Maybe in 1950 a million dollars was a lot of money.

What did the upgrade to the Cameron street bridge cost? I think it was $8 Million.

I'm really not sure if IPG is doing a lot of good for our City, but trying to boost our image couldn't hurt.

I wish people took some pride in this City. Take a look around the businesses in this City, they don't seem to give a rat's a** about what their storefront looks like. If I didn't know better I would think the price of a litre of paint must be worth a million dollars.

If you talk to the general public outside Prince George and ask them their impression of PG it's a dirty town. Maybe some of those business owners could employ a few people to clean up their businesses?

They might give that a try instead of washing their 1 tonne diesel pickups. Now there's a thought.........

Posted by: darkken on March 12 2010 6:07 PM

Unemployment dipped provincially because of one thing-the Olympics! A truer test of the unemployment rate will be March and April when break up hits the oil and lumber sectors...then we will see how the "recovery" is going