unemployment
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They also tended to have lower levels of education and higher rates of unemployment.
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026
Youth unemployment is at one in four—double the global average.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
"We're in a region where the unemployment rate is the highest in the country and the median salary is among the lowest, so we try to do our bit."
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits was 219,000 in the week through April 4, up 16,000 from the previous week’s upwardly revised level of 203,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Unable to feed its people, unemployment soars to more than 50 percent.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Vocabulary lists containing unemployment
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