Unemployment Rate

unemployment rate: Employment nudged downward in Nova Scotia in the final weeks of 2013 as the provincial economy shed about 3,400 full-time jobs, according to numbers released Friday by Statistics Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. Unemployment was also up for December compared to November with its unemployment rate of 8.8 per cent and The provinces unemployment rate was 9.2 per cent as of December 2013, up about eight-tenths of a percentage point compared to December 2012. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.