{"id":719163,"date":"2026-06-06T14:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719163\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T14:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:53:10","slug":"nl-jobless-rate-drops-to-9-6-as-national-employment-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719163\/","title":{"rendered":"NL Jobless Rate Drops to 9.6% as National Employment Surges"},"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=\"NL Jobless Rate Drops to 9.6% as National Employment Surges\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate in Newfoundland and Labrador has dipped back to single digits as Canada gained 88,000 jobs in May.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate fell nationally to 6.6 per cent, down from 6.9 per cent in April.<\/p>\n<p>In this province, the rate fell to 9.6 from 10. In the metro region, unemployment was at 7.0 per cent in May, a slight increase from April.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, employment increased by 88,000 in May, the first significant employment gain since November 2025. The increase in May follows a net decline of 112,000 over the first four months of 2026. On a year-over-year basis, employment was up by 147,000 in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The unemployment rate in Newfoundland and Labrador has dipped back to single digits as Canada gained 88,000&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-719163","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\/719163","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=719163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719163\/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=719163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}