{"id":9646,"date":"2014-05-10T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T12:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2014-05-10T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T12:43:17","slug":"economy-loses-28900-jobs-unemployment-rate-stays-at-6-9-per-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/10\/economy-loses-28900-jobs-unemployment-rate-stays-at-6-9-per-cent\/","title":{"rendered":"Economy loses 28,900 jobs, unemployment rate stays at 6.9 per cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9680\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9680\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/canada-jobs-unemployment-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>ShutterStock image<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #212121;\">OTTAWA &#8212; The latest labour-market data says the Canadian economy unexpectedly lost 28,900 net jobs in April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #212121;\">Statistics Canada&#8217;s Labour Force Survey found the unemployment rate remained at 6.9 per cent for the second straight month, suggesting that some Canadians had given up looking for work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #212121;\">Economists had anticipated an increase of 12,000 jobs for April, according to Thomson Reuters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #212121;\">The April job losses follow a gain of 42,900 net new jobs in March \u2014 which means 14,000 jobs were added over the two-month period.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #212121;\">The report also shows 30,900 full-time jobs were lost in April, compared with 2,000 new positions in part-time employment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #212121;\">The Statistics Canada data says the employment losses struck Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Prince Edward Island.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #212121;\">The report says there were 27,100 fewer jobs held by young Canadians aged 15-24, while the youth unemployment rate stayed put at 13.4 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The latest labour-market data says the Canadian economy unexpectedly lost 28,900 net jobs in April. Statistics Canada&#8217;s Labour &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,1145],"tags":[1877,1599,3146,982],"class_list":["post-9646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ca","category-headline","tag-decline","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-unemployment","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646","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=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}