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Recent Examples of joblessness
Industrial production fell and joblessness jumped.
—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The Philippines’ underemployment rate surged to its highest in nearly three years in April even as joblessness eased, with transport workers spending less hours on the road due to high oil prices.
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Ditas B Lopez,
Bloomberg,
9 June 2026
The joblessness and despair of the Great Depression has created a debilitating culture at this small traveling business where everyone is living on top of each other and driving each other to more and more distressing extremes.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2026
And the crunch on businesses and rising joblessness promised a surge in defaults on customer loans.
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Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
The highest rate of joblessness is pervasive on the South and West sides of Chicago.
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Willie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
The pitch mixes selective truths with outright deception, targeting young men facing joblessness, inflation, and creeping poverty, as well as young women lured by promises of factory jobs, including in drone production tied to the war effort.
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Yinka Adegoke,
semafor.com,
25 Feb. 2026
The country has struggled with structural joblessness in the past, but the problem has tended to afflict blue-collar workers, not white-collar ones.
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Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2026
Please note that California has long ranked high in joblessness, due in part to its volatile yet successful entrepreneurial mindset.
—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
The Philippines’ underemployment rate surged to its highest in nearly three years in April even as joblessness eased, with transport workers spending less hours on the road due to high oil prices.
—
Ditas B Lopez,
Bloomberg,
9 June 2026
The joblessness and despair of the Great Depression has created a debilitating culture at this small traveling business where everyone is living on top of each other and driving each other to more and more distressing extremes.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
4 June 2026
And the crunch on businesses and rising joblessness promised a surge in defaults on customer loans.
—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
The highest rate of joblessness is pervasive on the South and West sides of Chicago.
—
Willie Wilson,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
The pitch mixes selective truths with outright deception, targeting young men facing joblessness, inflation, and creeping poverty, as well as young women lured by promises of factory jobs, including in drone production tied to the war effort.
—
Yinka Adegoke,
semafor.com,
25 Feb. 2026
The country has struggled with structural joblessness in the past, but the problem has tended to afflict blue-collar workers, not white-collar ones.
—
Annie Lowrey,
The Atlantic,
18 Feb. 2026
Please note that California has long ranked high in joblessness, due in part to its volatile yet successful entrepreneurial mindset.
—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joblessness
unemployment
Noun
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In addition, the paper said childhood exposure explained nearly all of the labor force participation dynamics and that men’s expectations for their own wages or employment were based on lifetime experiences—and not macroeconomic conditions like national unemployment or inflation.
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Lack of movement on unions’ desires to win unemployment benefits for striking workers after two weeks on the picket lines are sticking in labor’s craw.
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“Joblessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joblessness. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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