Unemployment is up for a third month in a row but Saskatchewan is still below the national average according to Friday\u0027s Labour Force Survey.
Activate your Online Access NowFor context, the employment rate refers to “the number of employed people as a percentage of the population aged 15 and older.”
“In a province like Saskatchewan, with the potential that we have here, consistently being last in the country is not acceptable,” said Beck.Meanwhile, the government saw the same data set and saw a rosier picture. In that same release Jeremy Harrison, minister of immigration and career training, said the province is inching ever closer to its goal of adding 100,000 jobs by 2030.
Beck said in the back-and-forth “he said, she said” of one side taking a victory lap while the other points at flaws means people need to ask themselves simple questions: “Are you better off than you were five years ago? Are your neighbours better off?”
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