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There were 160,000 unemployed people in New Zealand in the quarter, with 14.5% of that number unemployed for more than a year, the data showed.

If millions of college graduates end up unemployed or underemployed within the next few years, a new political eruption seems likely.

Working in Big Tech, or in software generally, has for years been seen as the most-secure employment in the world, so much so that “just learn to code, bro” became a meme targeting the unemployed.

It wasn’t easy, he says, and he had to make sure he had enough money to bridge unemployed periods between contracts.

His mother was a schoolteacher and his father operated a linotype when he wasn’t unemployed.

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

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