The unemployment rate for the region that includes Grey and Bruce counties fell by half a percentage point last month to become the lowest in the province. Article content

With the decrease, the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula Economic Region unemployment rate sits at 4.3 per cent, while the overall provincial rate also decreased last month, by 0.4 percentage points to sit at 7.9 per cent. Both rates are unadjusted for seasonality. Article content

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With the region’s overall population aged 15+ increasing by 300 and the size of the labour force increasing by 5,900 people, it resulted in the number of people not in the labour force to decrease by 5,600, pushing the participation rate up by 2 per cent to 60.6 per cent, according to the Four County Labour Mark

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