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unemployment

noun as in layoff

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noun as in recession

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Trump will now inherit a growing, healthy economy with low unemployment, inflation that has returned to historic norms, and markets hitting one all-time high after another.

From Slate

It would also increase unemployment, since most undocumented immigrants generate excess demand for additional services that will disappear with them, because this is what happens when you shrink the population of people that you can sell things to.

From Slate

More than $5 trillion goes each year to Social Security, Medicare, federal employee retirement, unemployment compensation and the like.

The UK's unemployment rate has risen, official figures suggest, while pay growth continues to slow.

From BBC

The rate of unemployment stood at 4.3% in the three months to September, up from 4% the previous quarter.

From BBC

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

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