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Jobs, jobs, jobs: how some Canadians are experiencing the damaged pandemic labour market more than others

The job market in Canada is not a great place right now, with employment still down about 640,000 jobs since the initial lockdown last March. Only about 70 per cent of the jobs lost then have been re-gained.
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A row of signs advertising jobs are posted in front of a Burger King restaurant, Thursday, May 21, 2020, in Harmony, Pa. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the two months since the coronavirus took hold in the U.S. has swelled to nearly 39 million, the government reported Thursday, even as states from coast to coast gradually reopen their economies and let people go back to work. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) (Keith Srakocic/The Associated Press)
Cost of Living9:59Jobs, jobs, jobs: how some Canadians are experiencing the damaged pandemic labour market more than others

The job market in Canada is not a great place right now, with employment still down about 640,000 jobs since the initial lockdown last March. Only about 70 per cent of the jobs lost then have been re-gained.

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The landscape can look and feel even worse depending on what type of work you do, and your age group.

Paul Haavardsrud talks with a young Canadian job-seeker who has been mostly out of work since the initial lockdowns last year. He also talks to an economist to find out what employment figures in Canada mean right now for the people living through the pain of the pandemic job market.

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