Unemployment rate unchanged in March
Posted Apr 9, 2010 07:38:44 AM.
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The unemployment rate remained unchanged in March at 8.2 per cent as the Canadian economy added 17,900 jobs.
Economists had expected the rate to edge down 8.1 per cent with 26,000 additional jobs added.
But Statistics Canada says that full-time employment fell by 14,200 in the month, with all the gains coming in the part-time category.
Still the government’s statistics agency notes that Canada’s economy has added 176,000 net new jobs since July, all of them full-time. It was a different story here in Waterloo Region, where the unemployment rate fell to 9.6 per cent in March from 10.1 in February. Statistics Canada says 3,500 more jobs were created locally.
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