March unemployment rate drops to 5.4 per cent

March unemployment rate drops to 5.4 per cent

In March, the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region decreased by 0.6 percentage points to 5.4 per cent. Meanwhile, the provincial unemployment rate increased from 7.2 per cent to 7.6 per cent this month, both unadjusted for seasonality. In March, the Region’s overall population increased by +300 although the labour force size decreased by -3,200 people, pushing the number of people not in the labour force in the Reg…