unemployed

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Still, the authors note that worker retraining programs can help insulate the unemployed from wage losses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

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

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

An unemployed thirty-six-year-old black man quit his suburban job because of the transportation problem.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander