the unemployed

noun

: people who have no jobs

Many of the city's unemployed are former factory workers.

Examples of the unemployed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Two years of high inflation and rising interest rates meant that the caseworkers were now seeing homeowners and people working two jobs, along with the unemployed and families on benefits. —Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

Meanwhile, California’s share of the unemployed in the U.S. was 16.6%. —Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024

Japanese media, however, have also reported that the unemployed and financially struggling Aoba had plotted a separate attack on a train station north of Tokyo a month before burning down the animation studio. —Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024

In 2009, Nadya Suleman gave birth at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in California to six boys and two girls; criticism came after the public learned that the unemployed, single mother had gotten pregnant with the octuplets and six elder children through in vitro fertilization. —Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024

The government’s decision to dispatch considerable aid to the unemployed while doing comparatively little for essential workers resulted in a strange, unfair imbalance, one with racial overtones. —Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023

Among those who lost housing, the analysis found that Black and Hispanic residents, single parents and the unemployed were disproportionately affected. —Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024

For the unemployed and working-class residents east of the Anacostia River, the lack of adequate storm drainage creates an extra burden because so many also face relentless crime, few grocery stores, understaffed schools and unreliable public transportation. —John Muyskens, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023

The French digital minister said on X today that the unemployed Altman is welcome to bring his quest for beneficial AI to France. —WIRED, 18 Nov. 2023