Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo Ties Ontario's Worst June Jobless Rate at 8.5%
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Updated · frequencynews.ca · Jul 15
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo Ties Ontario's Worst June Jobless Rate at 8.5%
1 articles · Updated · frequencynews.ca · Jul 15
Summary
StatCan put Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo at an 8.5% unemployment rate in June, tying it for the highest among Ontario’s 17 largest cities and municipalities.
That still marked a slight improvement from 8.7% in May, showing the region added and filled jobs even as it remained well above the provincial 7.0% and national 6.5% averages.
Nationally, the Tri-Cities also tied Oshawa for Canada’s second-highest rate among 44 major regions, trailing only Kelowna, British Columbia, at 9.2%.
Canada added about 18,000 jobs in June, while employment was up 99,000 from a year earlier, with workers aged 15 to 24 gaining 33,000 positions largely in part-time private-sector work.