Abbotsford unemployment hits highest point in over 4 years

The Abbotsford job market has reached a new low – or rather, a new high – as May marked the worst that local unemployment has been in more than four years.
According to Statistics Canada, the community lost another 1,400 jobs last month, making it the third month in a row that Abbotsford has had a declining number of jobs.
Even more notable is that the unemployment rate experienced a massive jump from 7.3 per cent in April to 8.4 per cent in May.
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