{"id":806,"date":"2025-09-05T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/806\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:00:48","slug":"canadian-economy-lost-66000-jobs-in-august-as-unemployment-rate-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/806\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian economy lost 66,000 jobs in August as unemployment rate rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent and the Canadian economy lost 66,000 jobs in the month of August, according to new data from Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The losses mostly affected workers between 25 to 54 years old, StatsCan said, while there was little change in youth employment.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The figures are more dire than some had predicted \u2014 a Reuters poll of economists ahead of the release predicted a gain of 10,000 jobs and for the unemployment rate to rise to seven\u00a0per cent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In July, the economy lost 41,000 jobs and unemployment remained steady at 6.9 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent and the Canadian economy lost 66,000 jobs in the month&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[72,61,60,150],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}