unemployed

Example Sentences

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There are currently 0.9 job openings for every unemployed person.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

For the latter group, 30% were economically inactive and 14.5% were unemployed.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population rose to 1.86 million in the week through March 7, versus 1.85 million a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Students and the unemployed worked as line-sitters; for up to $5 an hour, they’d sit in your car and inch it forward toward the gas pumps.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

In the nearby town he found a former German engineer who was now unemployed and had five children to feed.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson