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CB Unemployment Rate 13.3% In January

Bobby Nockby Bobby Nock

Statistics Canada says Cape Breton’s unemployment rate was 13.3 percent in January.

That’s unchanged from December and compares with a jobless rate of 10.3 percent in January of last year.

Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate fell a tenth of a percentage points to 5.7 percent, last month.

The federal agency says that’s the first decline since December of 2022.

Nova Scotia’s jobless rate for January was 6.4 percent.

Bobby Nock

Bobby grew up in Whycocomagh before moving to Halifax to attend university where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Journalism degree. After university, Bobby moved back to Cape Breton where he began working as a freelance journalist and has done work for both print media and as a broadcast journalist. As the News Director, Bobby Nock will get your day started by bringing you information that helps connect you to the community with all the latest in local news.

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