Unemployment rate drops in Medicine Hat
The Medicine Hat and Lethbridge regions have added more jobs in the last year.
According to newly-released employment statistics, the unemployment rate in May for the region has dropped to 5.9 per cent, down from 7.4 per cent in the previous year.
Compared to the rates across all provincial regions, Lethbridge-Medicine Hat was the lowest, with the highest at 9.1 per cent in Calgary.
On the local level, Medicine Hat had an unemployment rate of 6.2 per cent for May of 2017, down from 7.2 in April of 2017. In 2016, the May unemployment rate stood at 11.2.