The number of Employment Insurance claimants dropped in every province in Canada in July compared to June except in Newfoundland and Labrador. The province saw an increase of 2.4% in EI claims in July, matching the increase seen in June from May.
Year over year, the number of claims is down 16.2%.
In June to July 2009, the number of EI claims went up by 6.5% but then dropped by 8.7% the next month.
Over the past year, the number of claims has dropped each month, except for the past two. Most months, the drops were modest, ranging from 0.0% to 1.3%. Except for the July to August 2009 drop of 8.7%, the largest drop was 3.2% from October to November 2009.
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