Unemployment among young men in Alberta is now at levels not seen since 1983. And the increase over the past few months is the sharpest outside of a recession on record. There are several important political observations that need to be made about these developments. 1/x #abpoli 
Second, it’s also becoming clear that the Kenney government’s policy of tax cuts for profitable corporations is not working. They promised that their $4.7 billion giveaway would create 50,000 jobs. Instead, both investment and jobs are down. We lost 18,000 jobs last month alone!
Third, the Kenney government’s budget cuts are just going to make a bad situation worse. Laying off teachers and nurses won’t bring back jobs for oil field and construction workers. It will just layer public sector unemployment on top of private sector unemployment.
This is a recipe for more misery for Alberta families, not less. And it will probably have the effect of knocking our struggling economy into a full-blown recession. Sadly, this is exactly what we predicted. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #canlab afl.org/new_report_con…
Thanks to @trevortombe for the power graphic visualization of what’s happening to young men in our province’s labour market.
This might be a good time for me to repost an older thread I wrote about what’s REALLY behind our province’s economic slowdown (hint: it doesn’t have anything to do with Kenney’s bat shit crazy claims about foreign-funded campaigns to landlock our oil).
