Photo courtesy of Statistics Canada
Off-reserve unemployment in Saskatchewan was 19.8 per cent last month, virtually unchanged from a year ago.
The number represents one in five First Nations workers. The rate is more than three times the provincial average. It is more than twice as high as the Metis unemployment rate, which stood at 8.3 per cent in October, down 1.8 per cent from a year ago.
The latest jobless numbers were released today by Statistics Canada. The overall Aboriginal unemployment in Saskatchewan was 13 per cent in October, representing a drop of three-tenths of a per cent, mainly in the Metis population.
Province-wide there were 564,100 people employed in Saskatchewan in October of this year, down 4,000 from September.
The provincial unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent.