underemployed
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Changing the way children are taught might help ensure they are "not left unemployed and sectors that need people are not left underemployed".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Another 41.5% are underemployed, meaning they are working in jobs that typically do not require a college degree.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The war is a distant drumbeat, its threat ever audible to Steele’s underemployed, eminently draftable characters from 9,000 miles away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Many refugees arrive with professional experience and degrees but end up unemployed or underemployed in survival-wage jobs to make ends meet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
Half the young men of that age group are either unemployed or underemployed.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
