A significant drop in the number of people employed in the Sault according to the latest monthly report from Stats Canada.  The number of people employed in the Sault is just over 31-thousand which is 69-hundred less than the employment level a year ago.  The Sault’s employment rate dropped almost 10% to 46.4%.  Despite the poor numbers, the Sault’s unemployment rate came in at 8.7%——down from the year ago rate of 9.2%.