jobless

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Roughly one in six Chinese between the ages of 16 and 24, excluding students, are jobless, according to official data.

From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026

The consensus forecast among economists had been for an unchanged jobless rate and a thin 10,000 rise in employment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The raw or actual number of new jobless claims, on the other hand, fell slightly to 187,978.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

And “the percentage of wholly jobless prime-age men shot from 6 percent to nearly 16 percent.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026

Perhaps to him I was someone he ought to look out for, a Korean- American, well educated, solitary-looking, seemingly jobless.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee