How to Use the unemployed in a Sentence

the unemployed

noun

• In February, 31% of the unemployed took 15 weeks or more to get a job.
  — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Some argue that the unemployed should have done a better job saving up for their tax bill.
  — Author: Heather Long, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2021
• Rao essays the role of the unemployed boy who takes some wrong turns to ensure a government job and get married.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
• Deb Martinez and her staff at Mission of Love Charities help house the homeless and find jobs for the unemployed.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Its primary goal was to provide work for the unemployed.
  — Joanna Dee Das, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
• Further, the unemployed are twice as likely to be lonely than those not seeking work.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 11 Aug. 2023
• Meanwhile, California’s share of the unemployed in the U.S. was 16.6%.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Temple visits are up by 310% as the unemployed youth in China seek solace through prayers.
  — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2023
• And when the benefit expired in August, the unemployed returned to work in large numbers.
  — WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
• Stores like this are frequented by the unemployed, adults with young children, the elderly, teenagers, the lonely, the homeless.
  — Kate Briggs, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• Another common myth is that the unemployed or those who do not want to work go into coaching.
  — Svetlana Khachiyan, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• In the meantime, the unemployed Lemon was also offered some employment options from rapper Rick Ross.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• Tyson Barrie Strange that a defenseman who put up 55 points just two seasons ago is still on the unemployed list but last season was a rough one for Barrie in Nashville and that may be what’s sticking in teams’ minds.
  — Arthur Staple, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
• But this benefits cliff is here, as most of the unemployed received their final infusion of the extra $600 from the federal government last week.
  — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• That increase was in part due to more people reentering the workforce and joining the ranks of the unemployed, which the BLS classifies as people without jobs actively searching for work.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• Carter furnished a plane and pilot, and Rogers canceled his showbiz engagements to begin stumping all over Texas to raise money for needy farmers and the unemployed, Fairley wrote.
  — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Jan. 2025
• Officials have also promised to help the unemployed and distribute holiday subsidies to the needy.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
• And the unemployed pass rushers probably aren’t eager to sign until closer to training camp to avoid participating in OTAs.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• For another, some of those leaving federal agencies were forced into early retirement — and don’t show up in the Labor Department’s count of the unemployed.
  — Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
• And failing to provide strong and reliable support to workers will have economic consequences that go far beyond the unemployed themselves.
  — Jacob Leibenluft, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2020
• Friedman shows how whereas the middle class and the elite have a stake in the economy, the lower classes—and especially the unemployed—are excluded from the formal economy altogether.
  — Sisonke Msimang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• His thesis: our safety net for the unemployed was helping to nudge workers to seek a threadbare dependency on public assistance rather than brave workplace insults.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• 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
• But if the unemployed aren’t actually able to access benefits—or if those benefits expire too early in the downturn—then people will be less likely to spend and support the economy.
  — Jacob Leibenluft, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2020
• Better to help the unemployed get back on their feet with generous and direct assistance and to create a far stronger safety net to protect future generations of American workers.
  — Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Denying lawyers for the unemployed and evicted In some counties that have invested in public defender offices, indigent defense has been transformed.
  — Ilana Panich-Linsman, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
• More than half of India’s population is under the age of thirty, but, according to a report by the International Labour Organization, the group accounts for almost eighty-three per cent of the unemployed.
  — Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
• Enlistment offices are working with universities and social service agencies to lure students and the unemployed.
  — Dasha Litvinova, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
• Recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the level of open positions is now almost even with available workers, reversing a trend in which openings outnumbered the unemployed by 2 to 1 a couple years ago.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2025