{"id":414,"date":"2014-01-10T09:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=414"},"modified":"2014-01-15T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T17:21:18","slug":"statistics-canada-says-45900-jobs-lost-in-december-unemployment-rate-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/01\/10\/statistics-canada-says-45900-jobs-lost-in-december-unemployment-rate-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics Canada says 45,900 jobs lost in December, unemployment rate rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy lost 45,900 jobs in December and the unemployment rate rose as more people searched for work.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate rose to 7.2 per cent for the final month of the year, compared with 6.9 per cent in November.<\/p>\n<p>Economists had expected the economy to add 14,600 jobs and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 6.9 per cent, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The drop was led by a decline in full-time jobs which fell by roughly 60,000 for the month. The loss was offset in part by a gain of 14,200 part-time jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The loss for December brought the total job gains for last year to 102,000, the slowest annual pace since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The disappointing job report capped a week of generally soft Canadian economic data that has seen the loonie drop to its lowest level in several years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy lost 45,900 jobs in December and the unemployment rate rose as more people searched &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}