{"id":596974,"date":"2026-04-11T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596974\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:18:09","slug":"provincial-jobless-rate-climbs-while-national-figure-holds-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596974\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial Jobless Rate Climbs While National Figure Holds Steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/now-hiring-sign-employment-job-resume.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Provincial Jobless Rate Climbs While National Figure Holds Steady\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Canada did not change last month from February, but there was a slight increase in Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n<p>It stood at 9.5 per cent in this province in March, up from 9.2 the month before.<\/p>\n<p>Average hourly wages, nationally, went up by 4.7 per cent year-over-year to $37.73.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The unemployment rate in Canada did not change last month from February, but there was a slight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-596974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596974","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=596974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}