{"id":203024,"date":"2025-10-10T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:06:11","slug":"unemployment-rate-held-steady-at-7-1-in-september-statcan-says-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/203024\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rate held steady at 7.1% in September, StatCan says &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national rate of unemployment was unchanged in September and remains the highest it\u2019s been in four years, as economic challenges from <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the trade war and tariffs<\/a> continue to hinder business growth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759603997_236_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada reported Friday that September showed an <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/unemployment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">unemployment<\/a> rate of 7.1 per cent, which matched <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11394548\/canada-jobs-report-august-2025-statistics-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">August\u2019s reading while<\/a> 60,000 jobs were added and the national employment rate increased 0.1 per cent to 60.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Analyzing the Bank of Canada\u2019s latest rate cut'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760112371_329_2025_09_21_BUSINESS_NEWS_CAMPBELL.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t3:16<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnalyzing the Bank of Canada\u2019s latest rate cut\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>In September, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11459903\/bank-of-canada-summary-rate-cut-september\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Bank of Canada delivered its first cut to borrowing rates since March<\/a>, and cited weakness in the labour market as one of the main factors that led to its decision. The central bank also suggested further cuts may be needed in the near term, with the next monetary policy announcement scheduled for Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0More to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Money<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The national rate of unemployment was unchanged in September and remains the highest it\u2019s been in four years,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46,125],"class_list":["post-203024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}