The numbers are in for the federal, provincial, and local unemployment rates.
For our area, which stretches from the Bay of Quinte, through Kingston, to the Ottawa Valley, we are sitting at 5.6% for February.
In January it was 5.6%, and 5.2% for December
In February of 2018, the region was at just 4%, a jump of 40% (year over year)
The numbers last month were very similar to the provincial and federal average.
Ontario was at 5.7%, nationally at 5.8 percent.
