Regional Unemployment
Medicine Hat’s unemployment rate bucking provincial, national trend
Apr 9, 2020 | 9:34 AM
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MEDICINE HAT, AB – Alberta as a whole has shed nearly 40,000 jobs last month compared to March 2019 but the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region is bucking the trend with job growth over the same period, according to Statistics Canada’s latest Labour Force Survey.
The Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region’s unemployment rate for March is at 5.2 per cent – the lowest in the province.
Those numbers sit in stark contrast to the provincial unemployment rate which is sitting at 8.7 per cent for March and is out pacing the next lowest region, Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake, which is reporting a 6.3 per cent unemployment rate.
More to come. . .
