How to Use jobless in a Sentence

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• The jobless rate exceeds the U.S. rate of 3.6% in June.
  — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2022
• The jobless rate stood at 3.9% in April, near a 50-year low.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 May 2024
• That was the state’s lowest jobless rate since the start of the pandemic.
  — Diego Mendoza-Moyers, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2023
• The jobless rate held steady in June at 3.6 percent, near a 50-year low.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• The nation’s jobless rate is in the midst of a 30-month streak of being at or below 4%.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• The county’s unemployment rate is just 3.1%, the same as the jobless rate for the state.
  — Michael E. Kanell, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
• The jobless rate edged up to 3.6%, from 3.4% in the prior month as more Americans looked for work.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2023
• The jobless rate fell from 4% last December to 3.6% in May.
  — Jon Hilsenrath, WSJ, 4 July 2022
• As though the jobless and houseless among us are no longer hungry.
  — Benjamin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
• The jobless rate stayed flat in San Mateo County, at 2.8%.
  — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2023
• The jobless rate rose but not by much The unemployment rate rose from 3.8% to 3.9%.
  — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• Each of the nation’s largest metros has seen its jobless rate drop from last year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• But in Season 3, Cory faltered, perhaps for the first time in his life, and was left jobless by the end of the finale.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
• Wages also grew a stronger-than-expected 4.5%, and the jobless rate stayed in a tight range at 50-year lows.
  — Christine Romans, NBC News, 2 Feb. 2024
• The improvement marked the first time in nearly two years that the statewide jobless rate decreased.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
• Urban jobless rate rose to a six-month high, while year-on-year home prices fell at their fastest pace in nine years.
  — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
• That means China now has about 21 million jobless youth in cities and towns.
  — Laura He, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
• That was a bit lower than the national jobless rate of 3.6%.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2022
• Reid thinks a half-point rate cut becomes likely if the jobless rate rises to 4.4%.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Other data this week showed a slide in job openings and an increase in the trend for jobless claims.
  — Christopher Anstey, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The jobless rate, meanwhile, would rise to 4.5 percent from 3.5 percent last month.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2023
• Then into the frame walks the great Ally Sheedy as Carol, her over-it mom, with whom jobless Sam is forced to move back in.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
• The survey comes at a time when the state’s jobless number is at an historic level.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 7 June 2022
• Michigan's jobless rate, Hoffman said, could edge into the 5.5% to 6% range.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
• The Federal Reserve predicted last month a 4.5% jobless rate at the end of this year and 4.6% next year.
  — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• Initial jobless claims rose the most since August 2023.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
• The loss of jobs could be far less than a typical recession, though, where the jobless rate often soars to 8%.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2023
• But that’s down from two openings per jobless workers the prior month.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• Thursday will bring data on initial jobless claims, giving a snapshot of the labor market’s health, along with the release of new home sales figures, which will further highlight trends in the housing sector.
  — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 20 Oct. 2024
• The data follows Thursday's Consumer Price Index reading, which was slightly higher than forecast, although weekly jobless claims rose more than expected.
  — Sinéad Carew and Lisa Pauline Mattackal, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024