The Canadian Press Jobless rate up last month in the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region Oct 11, 2019 9:17 AM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – The latest unemployment numbers have been released by Statistics Canada.

Alberta’s jobless rate for the month of September was listed at 6.6 percent. That’s a decrease from August, when the rate was at 7.2 percent.

In September of 2018, unemployment was at 7.0 percent.

The Lethbridge-Medicine Hat region saw a jump in unemployment, from 7.1 percent in August to 7.6 percent in September.