How to Use unemployment in a Sentence

unemployment

noun

• The current unemployment rate is six percent.
• My unemployment lasted about six months.
• Unemployment has been increasing for months.
• The unemployment rate in the area is 2.6% up 0.6% from a year ago, but still very low.
  — Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate in July in the UK was 4.3% against France’s 7.4%.
  — Eamon Akil Farhat, Fortune Europe, 28 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate rose to an 18-month high in August at 3.8%.
  — Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
• Even so, the February unemployment rate in the county stood at 15.6% – far above that of the state and the nation.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Apr. 2023
• The city for years has had a very low crime rate, the economy is healthy and unemployment is low.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate is still just 3.7%, barely above a 50-year low.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate remained steady from the prior month at 3.8%.
  — WSJ, 6 Oct. 2023
• Job growth has slowed while the unemployment rate has inched higher.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The unemployment rate remained at 3.7% from the month before.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• The urban unemployment rate was 5.3% in July, up from 5.2% in June.
  — Larissa Gao, NBC News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Wage growth is slowing, and the unemployment rate has risen over recent months.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Nov. 2023
• But the unemployment rate the over past year has been consistently lower than any point since the 1950s.
  — Ben Ritz, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
• The nation's unemployment rate is near a 50-year low and wages are starting to pull ahead of inflation.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
• The unemployment rate last month clocked in at 3.9%, an increase of half a percentage point from a recent low in April.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5% from 3.6% in June, the Labor Department said on Friday.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2023
• The unemployment rate ticked lower, from 3.7% to 3.6%, near a half-century low.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 13 July 2023
• Keeping the unemployment rate low in recent months has been a triumph of the U.S. economy.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
• Because the unemployment rate is near its lowest point since the 1960s, the misery index is now fairly low.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• The nation’s unemployment rate, at 3.5 percent, is still barely above a half-decade low.
  — Paul Wiseman, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• Since then, more than 15 million jobs have been created and the unemployment rate has stayed below 4% for more than two years.
  — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2024
• The job market, for instance, remains strong, with wages rising and the unemployment rate near historic lows.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2023
• The unemployment rate, at 3.5%, is close to the lowest level in decades and average hourly earnings were up 4.4% in June from a year earlier.
  — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The July youth unemployment rate, however, won’t set a new record.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• And the unemployment rate, based on a survey of households, rose to 3.9 percent from 3.8 percent in September.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• The unemployment rate would be lower if the labor force didn’t continue to grow after lows earlier in the year.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
• And that is very important when inflation goes up, unemployment goes up, and GDP goes down.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune Europe, 19 Dec. 2023
• The state unemployment rate has decreased by 0.6 percentage point since then.
  — Aaron Gettinger, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024