{"id":799241,"date":"2026-07-13T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:28:16","slug":"windsors-unemployment-rate-falls-again-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/799241\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsor&#8217;s unemployment rate falls again in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Windsor\u2019s unemployment rate crept down once again in June, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www150.statcan.gc.ca\/n1\/daily-quotidien\/260710\/t007a-eng.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new data from Statistics Canada.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It sat at a seasonally adjusted three-month moving average of eight per cent last month, down from 8.2 per cent in May.<\/p>\n<p>Windsor had the fifth highest unemployment rate in the country, tied with Chilliwack, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 600 fewer people were unemployed in Windsor in June compared to May, the data showed.<\/p>\n<p>But the number of people who were neither working nor actively looking for work in the city grew by around 1,600 over the same time period, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/datastudio.google.com\/u\/0\/reporting\/f828282c-f049-4092-9dca-8b502e73ac03\/page\/nvOg?s=qa5ntBpPbX0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Workforce WindsorEssex\u2019s June labour force report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The number of people employed in the city actually fell by around 400, the Statistics Canada data shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Across Canada, the unemployment rate fell by a tenth of a percentage point to 6.5 per cent, with youth unemployment dropping by 0.7 percentage points, and unemployment among people 55 and older rising by 0.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>In Ontario, the unemployment rate was seven per cent, unchanged from May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-799241","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\/799241","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=799241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}