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That’s an increase of about 57-hundred when compared to the same month last year.
Labour Division Analyst, Vincent Ferrao (Fair-ow) told
MyPGNow.com this led to our unemployment rate dropping even further.
“The unemployment was 5.5% in April, 5.9% in March and a year ago when the labour market started to fall steeply the jobless mark was 10.2%.”
However, BC wasn’t so lucky seeing its unemployment rate jump to 7.1% after it was 6.9 in March.
The province lost 43-thousand jobs as a result.
Ferrao while the provincial mark is lower than what it was when the pandemic was first declared, it is still well below pre-pandemic levels.