On top of the dismal job numbers quoted below, Canada is the second worst
"western" country after Albania (I believe) for the amount of
under-employed in the workforce.We are somewhere near 1/3 of the total
workforce working jobs beneath the level of their qualifications for far
less than they should be making. What does it matter if we create jobs
in service industries for engineers, it's still jobs right? Harper
thinks so. Everyone serving the 1% for wages that don't enable anyone
else to join them. It's no coincidence
that the middle-class is shrinking, their wages have been held down for
the last thirty years. Without a middle-class there is no way to rise
from poverty except by chance or the charity of the privileged. I know
many who are under-employed, including me. It's not because entrepreneurs
and corporations are making worthwhile jobs. Go ahead, open another
store or restaurant. Who is going to be able to afford to use them? The
rich only shop in so many places. I suppose it will have to be the
foreign "temporary" workers brought in to keep these vital businesses
going. Working for the "company store". The more things change, the more
they stay the same.
- Jason Kenney ignored warning over unreliability of online job ads: internal doc
- "The labour market is not strong, that's a given": CIBC economist
by PressProgressJust how bad are Canada's new job numbers?
Here are 5 statistics that tell the story:
- 59,700: That's the number of full-time jobs that were lost last month.
- 200: Economists had expected the creation of 20,000 jobs in July. Instead, a mere 200 jobs were created overall, with part-time jobs offsetting the loss of full-time work.
- 0.7%: That's the growth of employment over the past year, with the addition of 115,300 new jobs. All this growth was in part-time work.
- 35,400: That's how many people dropped out of the labour force last month and are no longer being counted as unemployed.
- 65.9%: This is Canada's participation rate, which tracks the number of people searching for jobs. This is the first time since 2001 it has fallen below 66%.
- Bonus: Stephen Harper's Conservative government says it's focused on "job creation and economic growth."
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