unemployment
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Last month, the average length of unemployment climbed to a multiyear high.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
It is only when technological change takes out an industry in a particular region and people don't move that we see major technological unemployment and wage reductions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Yet the teenage unemployment rate—the share of teens looking for work who can’t find it—is lower today, at 14%, than the 16% registered in 1979.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Yet the job market that fresh graduates enter is no longer as rosy as it once was, with high youth unemployment a significant concern.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
The Depression had come, and the unemployment rate was nearing 25 percent.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
Vocabulary lists containing unemployment
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The Great Depression and The New Deal
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