P.E.I. unemployment back above 10%

P.E.I.'s unemployment rate rose above 10 per cent in November for the first time in three months.

The rate was 10.4 per cent. All of the basic indicators were down, with fewer full-time and part-time jobs, as well as fewer people in the labour force.

The unemployment rate had been above 11 per cent for much of 2015, but began falling in August for the first time in 10 months.

This is the second year in a row that the jobless rate has been in single digits for consecutive months. When it happened in 2014 it was the first such run since the 1970s.