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Recent Examples of underemployed
With Los Angeles production levels in a sorry state, underemployed workers are flocking to a format that’s faster, shorter, cheaper and quite literally overturns film and TV norms.
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Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
The group provides support, including professional clothing, to unemployed and underemployed women.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 10 June 2025
The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% while the underemployed rate, or the share of part-time workers who want full-time jobs, remained unchanged at 7.8%.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 6 June 2025
But verticals are the work of outsiders: a parallel industry of recent film-school graduates, underemployed tradespeople, and creative laborers who have yet to meet the requirements for membership in Hollywood’s various powerful unions.
—Joshua Hunt, Vulture, 5 June 2025
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Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
The group provides support, including professional clothing, to unemployed and underemployed women.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 10 June 2025
The unemployment rate held steady at 4.2% while the underemployed rate, or the share of part-time workers who want full-time jobs, remained unchanged at 7.8%.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 6 June 2025
But verticals are the work of outsiders: a parallel industry of recent film-school graduates, underemployed tradespeople, and creative laborers who have yet to meet the requirements for membership in Hollywood’s various powerful unions.
—Joshua Hunt, Vulture, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underemployed
unemployed
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Likewise, a recent analysis measuring AI exposure risk across various sectors of the economy suggests that workers whose jobs involve tasks that AI can do are actually much less likely than other workers to be unemployed.—
Anjana Susarla,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Enter Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend, a charming but wildly unemployed suitor well aware of the fortune she’s poised to inherit.—
Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Underemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underemployed. Accessed 25 Aug. 2025.
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