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Windsor’s unemployment rate in January was the lowest in the province at 4.6 per cent, a drop of 1.4 percentage points over the previous month, according to the results of the latest labour force survey by Statistics Canada.

Nationally, the unemployment rate increased slightly by 0.1 percentage points to 5.9 per cent in January.

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On a year-over-year basis, employment grew by 289,000 or 1.6 per cent nationally. There were 414,000 new full time jobs and there were 125,000 fewer people working part time, according to the statistics.

Ontario’s unemployment rate was 5.5 per cent in January. Compared with January 2017, employment in the province grew by 104,000 jobs and the unemployment rate declined by 0.9 percentage points.