Red Deer area unemployment rate holds at 5.5%
Mar 9, 2018 | 7:49 AM
RED DEER- The Red Deer area unemployment rate for February remained unchanged from January at 5.5%.
The unemployment rate for our area in February 2017 was 9%.
The Alberta rate dropped from 7.0 % to 6.7%.
The national unemployment rate edged down to 5.8% last month from 5.9 % in January as the country added 15,400 net new jobs.