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Unemployment benefitsOverall, 10 million people in the United States are currently unemployed, and about 40 percent of these people have been out of work for more than six months.

“Correcting this misclassification and counting those who have left the labor force since last February as unemployed would boost the unemployment rate to close to 10 percent in January,” Powell said Wednesday.

The Democrats’ priorities are incredibly distorted given that many small businesses are struggling and millions of Americans are unemployed.

A lot of us are still working, but our hours have been so drastically affected by covid that we might as well be unemployed.

Millions of Americans are still unemployed months into the pandemic, but there is one segment of the economy where hiring is booming.

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Around half the Baluch in the province are unemployed, a result, say rights groups, of longstanding marginalization by Tehran.

A new WPA would have helped create jobs and provided some training to underemployed or unemployed youth.

The unemployed have a right to be anxious about the ravages on their families exacted by their unemployment.

Since the spill, the number of unemployed residents in Louisiana and Alabama has only increased.

A few held signs addressed to George, asking him to “adopt an unemployed worker.”

Governmental care of the unemployed, the infant and the infirm, sounds like a chapter in socialism.

There was no attempt to set all the unemployed to work, and no desire to confine to them the staff that was engaged.

The Unemployed Workmen Act carries this contrary policy of discrimination according to merit into the class of the able-bodied.

The loss of trade brought Bruges face to face with the 'question of the unemployed' in a very aggravated form.

In 1905 the Unemployed Workmen Act created a rival authority for relieving the able-bodied man.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to unemployed, such as: idle, inactive, jobless, underemployed, down, and free.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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