{"id":202889,"date":"2023-12-13T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=202889"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:44:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:44:23","slug":"report-shows-drop-in-median-wage-need-for-immigration-in-the-columbia-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/report-shows-drop-in-median-wage-need-for-immigration-in-the-columbia-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Report shows drop in median wage, need for immigration in the Columbia Basin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/selkirk.ca\/about-selkirk\/selkirk-innovates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Selkirk Innovates<\/a> published their yearly <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthebasin.ca\/statics\/reports\/SotB_SnapshotReport_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of the Basin report<\/a>. The report looks at the economic, environmental, cultural, and social well-being of the Columbia Basin-Boundary Region.<\/p>\n<p>To gain insights into the workforce, demographics, and business climate statistics, Kootenay Co-op Radio interviewed Tom Thomson, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce in Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson spoke about the median wage going from $29\/hour to $28\/hour, the labour force replacement rate being too low to maintain the current labour force, an increase in net migration and a decline in the number of business starts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story on CJLY below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Selkirk Innovates published their yearly State of the Basin report. The report looks at the economic, environmental, cultural, and social well-being of the Columbia Basin-Boundary Region. To gain insights into the workforce, demographics, and business climate statistics, Kootenay Co-op Radio interviewed Tom Thomson, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce in Nelson. Thompson&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":202893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[34211,34209,34210,27639],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202889"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203107,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202889\/revisions\/203107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202889"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=202889"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=202889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}