as in unemployed
having no job
having been jobless for six months, he was starting to get seriously discouraged
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The nationwide unemployment rate rose to its highest in two years at 5.4% last month while urban jobless rate for 16- to 24-year-olds, excluding students, rose to a four-month high of 16.9%.
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Weekly jobless claims have stayed between 200,000 and 250,000 for the past several years, and the four-week average rose by 1,500 to 226,000.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
The impact of the DOGE cuts haven't yet shown up in official government data, with the Labor Department saying Thursday that the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell by 21,000 to 221,000 for the week ending March 1.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
On the upside for the economy, the U.S. labor market is solid, with an unemployment rate of only 4,1%, fewer than 1.9 million continuing jobless claims, and over 7.7 million open jobs.
—Jason Schenker, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Weekly jobless claims have stayed between 200,000 and 250,000 for the past several years, and the four-week average rose by 1,500 to 226,000.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
The impact of the DOGE cuts haven't yet shown up in official government data, with the Labor Department saying Thursday that the number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell by 21,000 to 221,000 for the week ending March 1.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2025
On the upside for the economy, the U.S. labor market is solid, with an unemployment rate of only 4,1%, fewer than 1.9 million continuing jobless claims, and over 7.7 million open jobs.
—Jason Schenker, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Jobless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jobless. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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