Unemployment higher for South Asian, Black Canadians: StatCan
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Black and South Asian Canadians saw a larger rise in unemployment in September than the overall Canadian workforce, Statistics Canada said Friday, with women in both populations affected the most.
The unemployment rate for core-aged Canadians between the ages of 25 and 54 was 4.9 per cent in September, up 0.4 per cent year-over-year – but “increases in the unemployment rates of many racialized groups have been larger,” the federal agency said in its monthly Labour Force Survey.
The unemployment rate among core-aged South Asian Canadians was 6.4 per cent in September, rising 1.4 per cent from a year earlier.
That increase was driven by unemployment among South Asian women, Statistics Canada noted, with that demographic seeing unemployment rise 2.1 percentage points to 8.2 percent since a year earlier.