{"id":135626,"date":"2024-01-24T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/?p=135626"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:05:13","slug":"indigenous-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/indigenous-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Closing the employment gap for Indigenous youth in Atlantic Canada is key to easing the region\u2019s acute labour shortage, new research released Thursday said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net\/70c8fc80\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council said employment outcomes for the region\u2019s growing Indigenous youth population have improved in recent years, but still lag non-Indigenous youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research found Indigenous youth under age 25 face a number of barriers in the labour market, including lower educational attainment and a lack of resources such as transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Increasing funding for Indigenous youth training, skills development and entrepreneurship would help improve labour market outcomes of Indigenous youth, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This would boost economic development in Indigenous communities a well as help address a labour crunch in the broader economy, the research found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they still have lower employment rates than non-Indigenous youth, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReducing barriers and closing gaps is essential to promote economic development in Indigenous communities,\u201d Bergman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis will also expand the pool of skilled workers in our economy to help address ongoing labour shortages across the region.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost 49,000 jobs were vacant across the Atlantic region in April 2022, bringing the vacancy rate to a record high of 4.9 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGetting off-reserve Indigenous youth\u2019s employment rates to the same level as non-Indigenous youth would add 540 new workers to the region,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Global News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing the employment gap for Indigenous youth in Atlantic Canada is key to easing the region\u2019s acute labour shortage, new research released Thursday said. The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council said employment outcomes for the region\u2019s growing Indigenous youth population have improved in recent years, but still lag non-Indigenous youth. The research found Indigenous youth under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboriginaljobcentre.ca\/new2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}