Paul Martin's Business Update - June 9th 2014
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Paul Martin's Business Update - June 9th 2014
Saskatchewan’s economy is still a magnet for people looking to ride our wave. The latest job numbers – released Friday – show improvements across the board…full-time employment up, part-time down and so on. But the change most worthy of note is the expansion of our labor force. This is the pool of people available to fill a job. Some of these are people moving here in search of employment – so by definition they are unemployed when they arrive – and part of it is people re-entering the workforce after dropping out for whatever reason. The May figures show a jump of 4,100 from April. That accounts for more than half the increase of 7,000 from this time a year ago. Clearly people from across Canada and around the world see this province as a place to be, for the most part because of readily available employment. May’s numbers showed an increase of 1,800 over April and nearly 12,000 in the past year with 10,000 of those new positions being full-time.
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