Alberta Living Wage Network calculated that a Lethbridge family of 4 could cover their living needs if both parents were working full-time and making $15 an hour.
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Alberta consumers are most likely to say that it’s becoming more expensive to feed themselves or their families.
While $10 a day is better than what have now, there are a bunch of caveats.
The Métis Nation of Alberta denounced the spending of over $372,000 by the provincial government to these two groups.
Since 2011, the Alberta government has been publishing the “Alberta minimum wage profile”, a summary of the demographic information regarding those whose average hourly earnings are at or below minimum wage. This past June, the government added the minimum wage profile for workers during the period between October 2019 and September 2020. This was the […]
Statistics Canada recently released data on the number of active businesses in Canada between 2015 and 2021.
Alberta has the highest unemployment rate outside of Atlantic Canada
If you’ve been following Alberta economic news, you’ve probably heard by now that business owners are complaining about being unable to recruit workers because everyone would rather stay at home receiving federal pandemic benefits instead of get a job. I was curious about the numbers, so I thought I’d take a look at the jobs […]
$2 out of every $3 worth of military goods exported last year went to Saudi Arabia.
I looked at head office data for Alberta during 2012 and 2019 and compared it to other provinces.