University of Toronto Mowat Centre and Jobless Rate

jobless rate: There are more than 307,000 jobless Torontonians, according to the latest Statistics Canada figures. Fewer than 55,000 of them are collecting EI in a city with an 8.9 per cent jobless rate. 39% of unemployed have given up job search, poll suggests MAP: Jobless rates across the country , according to CBC. Matthew Mendelsohn, director of the University of Toronto Mowat Centre, says EI is out of step with labour market realities in the country biggest cities, leaving tens of thousands of workers without a social safety net. It was a barely noticed peculiarity in the government latest employment insurance numbers just 17 per cent of unemployed workers in Toronto are collecting EI, among the lowest rates in the city history as it confronts a higher jobless rate than the provincial and national average. Experts point out that while many of the jobless are chronically unemployed citizens who don't qualify for EI, others are part of an evolving urban labour market that isn't being reflected by Canada EI system. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.