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London-St.Thomas Unemployment Rate Hits 8.6% in July

8/10/2012

The global economic slowdown has delivered a blow to Canada's jobs market. 

The country shed a surprisingly steep 30-thousand, 400 jobs last month. 

Stats-can says a lot of the losses were in the part-time category.

We are now sitting at 7.3 per cent nationally.

The London-St. Thomas unemployment rate has climbed for the second month in row, hitting 8.6% in July.

So it's pretty much  holding steady, up a tenth of a point.

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