{"id":55568,"date":"2025-08-09T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:36:08","slug":"nl-unemployment-rate-drops-below-double-digits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/55568\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Unemployment Rate Drops Below Double Digits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Application-for-Employment-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NL Unemployment Rate Drops Below Double Digits\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador has dipped below double digit unemployment. It fell to 9.9 per cent in July from 10.5 in June.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate nationally held steady at 6.9 per cent last month as the agency says the total number of job seekers was roughly unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>In the St. John\u2019s area, the jobless rate fell to 6.7 per cent from 6.8.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada says youth aged 15 to 24 saw the biggest employment drop in July amid a tough summer jobs market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Newfoundland and Labrador has dipped below double digit unemployment. It fell to 9.9 per cent in July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-55568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-jobs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}