Today’s Statistics Canada release features the latest (February 2009) stats on Employment Insurance claims. From February 2008 to February 2009, the number of EI beneficiaries is up 69%. And the number is up 11.6% just between January and February. More evidence that the BC economy is in much worse shape than the major political parties [...]
Entries Tagged as 'EI'
BC's soaring EI claims
April 28th, 2009 · Marc Lee · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Employment & labour
Tags: EI·employment·recession·unemployment
BC leads country in rising EI claims
March 24th, 2009 · Marc Lee · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Employment & labour
According to today’s Statscan release, unemployment insurance (EI) claims were up 47% in January 2009 compared to January 2008. This makes BC the leader in Canada when it comes to rising EI claims. I don’t think that was one of the Great Golden Goals.
There is a lag in the EI numbers, since the most recent [...]
Tags: EI·unemployment·welfare
Following the money in BC communities
March 12th, 2009 · Marc Lee · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Employment & labour, Environment, resources & sustainability, Poverty, inequality & welfare, Provincial budget & finance, Taxes
It is one of those publications that few media outlets will report on, and even fewer British Columbians will read, but BC Stats just released the latest version of its Local Area Economic Dependencies, updated based on 2006 census data.
This publication basically asks where the income in various BC communities comes from. In many communities [...]
Tags: EI·employment·forestry·public sector·transfer payments·welfare
It's about jobs
February 13th, 2009 · Karen Cooling · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
Next week the provincial government releases their budget and I am looking for something, anything at all, for forest workers.
Now I hate to be a total whiner, but since 2001, BC has lost 65 sawmills, four pulp mills and about 20,000 jobs in the forest industry. With the spin off effect of about 1 to [...]
Tags: budget·EI·forestry·unemployment
