We also went from having the sixth highest unemployment to the fourth highest.
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It also had the highest increase in food bank usage in the last year and in the last 6 years.
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AB gained nearly 29,000 jobs in Nov 2025
Most of them were full-time jobs; although full-time jobs, as a percentage of total jobs, are still lower than they were in June 2019.
Also, Alberta dropped to third place for median full-time wages.
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Alberta gained 42,500 jobs in Sep 2025
But they lost nearly 31,000 jobs in July and August, so this is not as large of an increase as it first appears. And most of them were part-time.
There’s a persistent myth in Alberta that minimum wage workers are mostly teenagers. Except, this just isn’t true.
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Alberta food prices rising faster than wages
In fact, over the last 6 years, Alberta saw the largest gap in Canada between how much food prices have increased and how much wages have increased.
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Alberta lost over 30,000 jobs this summer
They were all men, and all in the private sector.
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Alberta’s youth jobless rate passes 20%
Since the UCP were first elected in 2019, Alberta has had the highest youth unemployment rate in Canada 16 times. Half of those occurred in just the last 2 years.
And our unemployment rate is the highest it has been since October 2021.