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unemployment

[uhn-em-ploi-muhnt] / ˌʌn ɛmˈplɔɪ mənt /






NOUN
layoff
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The number of people who filed for unemployment benefits rose to 229,000 in the week through June 6 higher than the 225,000 reported a week earlier, the Labor Department said Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 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 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

But recent labor-market data may be telling an incomplete story, where headline numbers — such as nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate — look better than the health of the consumer.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026

One reason so many people have a false impression of the economic well-being of African Americans, as a group, is that poverty and unemployment statistics do not include people who are behind bars.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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