By rdnewsNOW staff

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE TICKS UPWARD

Slight increase in Red Deer area December unemployment rate

Jan 10, 2020 | 8:40 AM

RED DEER- Stats Canada’s December jobs report shows the Red Deer area unemployment rate rose to 6.6% last month from 6.5% in November.

The Alberta rate dropped from 7.2 to 7.0%.

Nationally in December there was a rise in the number of full time jobs, as the economy added 35,200 positions and the unemployment rate fell to 5.6%.

That’s compared with a rate of 5.9% in November, when the country suffered the biggest monthly loss of jobs since the financial crisis.

The economy added 320,300 jobs for all of 2019.

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