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unemployed

[uhn-em-ploid] / ˌʌn ɛmˈplɔɪd /


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According to the preliminary monthly run of the Chicago Fed’s labor-market model, employment fundamentals like the hiring rate for unemployed workers and the rates of layoffs and quits were likely little changed this month.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nearly a quarter of unemployed people have been without a job for at least 27 weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal

They received at least 100 sympathy cards, from "Oxford University professors, to politicians and the unemployed".

From BBC

Continuing claims, a measure of the size of the unemployed population, changed little in the week through Dec. 13, rising to 1.92 million from 1.89 million a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal

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