The Chronicle Herald editorial
PART-TIME jobs are growing in Canada.
There were 31,000 more of them in August, Statistics Canada reported yesterday, which more than offset, at least in numbers, the bad news that another 3,900 full-time jobs disappeared. Nevertheless, the national unemployment rate edged up marginally to 8.7 per cent because the number of people joining the labour force was greater than the number who found jobs.
The August gain of 27,100 jobs is not a huge turn-around. Canada has lost 387,000 jobs since October. But August was the first month to show any net gain, tentative evidence that we’ve passed another milestone on the tough slog to recovery. Read the rest of this entry »
