Unemployment Drops Again

Friday, July 09, 2010 06:56 AM

Prince George, B.C.- The unemployment rate in Prince George is 7.3%, down from the 11.3 recorded in the same month last year. Good news for the Cariboo Region overall as well as unemployment is now 7.1%, down from 13.5% in June of 2009.

Provincially, the B.C. rate is sitting at 7.1% it had been 13.5 in June of 2009, and nationally, the rate is stitting at 7.9% down from 8.6%, that is the first time the national rate has been below the 8% mark since January of 2009.

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Posted on Friday, July 09, 2010 06:56 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Loki on July 9 2010 3:48 PM

So a few more fell off the EI wagon. It's not like there were any real new jobs created anywhere. Just more numbers the power that be can wave at us to show how good they are doing and how well off "we" are.

Posted by: thedogs on July 10 2010 12:43 AM

Just a few hundred more EI claims ran dry twisting some numbers around
isnt the unemployment worse than it was in the dreaded 90s Im stil waiting for the great economic spin offs from the olympics

Posted by: acrider54 on July 10 2010 6:20 AM

I have to call BS, people are moving and or running out of EI

Posted by: cupricity on July 10 2010 8:41 AM

Yeah there is no work here you three should leave to.

Posted by: Eagleone on July 10 2010 5:23 PM

I have to disagree this time around. If you can't get a job in PG right now its because you don't want to work. A lot of people did leave the region in the last couple of years... most held high paying forestry jobs before they left.

But now that the Mackenzie pulp mill is starting up that changes things a lot. They will hire just about anyone that shows up at the front gate with a resume and anyone not working that hasn't applied has no reason to be complaning right now. Most of the pulp mill workers have long since moved on to other jobs in other regons, and so to start up they need a lot of new employees. To say nothing of the mill pgrades taking place in Macknzie (long long over due) and in the PG pulp mills as well.

In addition to that having another pulp mill back on line creates economics for all the saw mills that are also coming on line like Conifex, Chetwynd, Quesnel, and the mills in the Fort St James area.

No excusses for being unemployeed right now other than a lack of proper training. This won't last though and in 6-months time it will be an entirely different ball game... but its summer time now, so who really wants a job anyways....