How to Use the unemployed in a Sentence

the unemployed

noun

• In February, 31% of the unemployed took 15 weeks or more to get a job.
  — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2023
• Some argue that the unemployed should have done a better job saving up for their tax bill.
  — Author: Heather Long, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Mar. 2021
• Deb Martinez and her staff at Mission of Love Charities help house the homeless and find jobs for the unemployed.
  — Courtland Milloy, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Further, the unemployed are twice as likely to be lonely than those not seeking work.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 11 Aug. 2023
• Temple visits are up by 310% as the unemployed youth in China seek solace through prayers.
  — Fox News, 29 Apr. 2023
• And when the benefit expired in August, the unemployed returned to work in large numbers.
  — WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
• Stores like this are frequented by the unemployed, adults with young children, the elderly, teenagers, the lonely, the homeless.
  — Kate Briggs, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• Another common myth is that the unemployed or those who do not want to work go into coaching.
  — Svetlana Khachiyan, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• In the meantime, the unemployed Lemon was also offered some employment options from rapper Rick Ross.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2023
• But this benefits cliff is here, as most of the unemployed received their final infusion of the extra $600 from the federal government last week.
  — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• That increase was in part due to more people reentering the workforce and joining the ranks of the unemployed, which the BLS classifies as people without jobs actively searching for work.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• And the unemployed pass rushers probably aren’t eager to sign until closer to training camp to avoid participating in OTAs.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• His thesis: our safety net for the unemployed was helping to nudge workers to seek a threadbare dependency on public assistance rather than brave workplace insults.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Enlistment offices are working with universities and social service agencies to lure students and the unemployed.
  — Dasha Litvinova, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
• Jason Furman proposes a two-stage economic plan, with immediate measures designed to help the unemployed and keep the recovery going followed by broader structural reforms.
  — Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2021
• Among those who lost housing, the analysis found that Black and Hispanic residents, single parents and the unemployed were disproportionately affected.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2024
• The government’s decision to dispatch considerable aid to the unemployed while doing comparatively little for essential workers resulted in a strange, unfair imbalance, one with racial overtones.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024