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Opponents claim that due to the NEP, the unemployment rate in Alberta rose from 3.7 percent to 12.4 percent, the bankruptcy rate in Alberta rose by 150 percent, and Alberta's losses were estimated to be between $50 billion and $100 billion (though Alberta's unemployment rate, bankruptcy rate, and revenue losses were also affected by the early ...
The unemployment rate in Alberta peaked in November 2016 at 9.1%. Its lowest point in a ten-year period from July 2009 to July 2019, was in September 2013 at 4.3%. [12] The unemployment rate in the spring of 2019 in Alberta was 6.7% with 21,000 jobs added in April. [13] By July 2019, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate had increased to 7. ...
The lowest level of national unemployment came in 1947 with a 2.2% unemployment rate, a result of the smaller pool of available workers caused by casualties from the Second World War. The highest level of unemployment throughout Canada was set in December 1982, when the early 1980s recession resulted in 13.1% of the adult population being out ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought initial unemployment claims to 38.6 million in just nine weeks, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor — shattering historic highs ...
In 2014, unemployment dropped to 5.6 percent—making it the best year for job growth since 2007. Yet Five charts help explain the state of unemployment in America today
In 1961 a new newspaper with the same name was started. That version has undergone a number of name changes through the years, but is the one that exists today. [67] In 1998, the Saint City News was founded, operating as the Gazette's major competitor for 13 years until it closed in 2011. [68] Also in 2011, the St. Albert Leader was started. It ...
The Canadian province of Alberta, home to the world’s third-largest oil reserves, said on Monday it will accelerate a corporate tax cut and invest C$10 billion ($7.31 billion) in infrastructure ...
The AFL was founded in 1912, when mining workers and tradespeople in Lethbridge organized to demand the establishment of occupational health and safety regulations in Alberta's coal fields which, at the time, had the highest workplace mortality rates in the world. Today, the Federation continues its tradition of advocacy on issues it perceives ...