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 The India Employment Report 2024, released by the International Labour Organization and the Institute for Human Development in March, found that India’s youth comprise nearly 83% of the unemployed workforce. Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2024 While the survey of establishments used for the headline payrolls number was discouraging, the household survey was even more so, with growth of just 67,000, while the ranks of the unemployed swelled by 352,000. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024 Employment in Australia rose by around 50,000 people and the unemployed increased by 10,000 people, Bjorn Jarvis, head of labor statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, said in a release. Charmaine Jacob, CNBC, 17 July 2024 There’s also a measure known as the labor force participation rate, which combines both measures discussed above: The employed plus the unemployed as a share of the total working age population. José Luis Martínez, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for the unemployed 

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“The unemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20unemployed. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.

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