unemployed

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The latest data shows 700,000 graduates are unemployed and claiming benefits and Diss says her case suggests they require a different sort of help.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

There is currently 0.9 job opening for every unemployed person.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 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

Continuing claims, which scale with the total size of the unemployed population fell to 1.85 million in the week through Feb. 28, versus 1.87 million a week earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Generose had managed to keep a part-time job as a stacker at a local drugstore for a while, but since giving birth to Alyah six months before, she had been unemployed.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John