How to Use underemployed in a Sentence

underemployed

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• For many underemployed and poor young people in Africa, this is a poignant statement.
  — Munachim Amah, CNN, 3 Nov. 2017
• Gasoline there remains among the cheapest in the world, in part to help keep costs low for its underemployed, who often drive taxis to make ends meet.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• Lost Generation and who were, in 2015, the most underemployed in all of Europe.
  — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
• The major market indexes climbed to new highs even as millions of Americans lost their jobs or joined the ranks of the underemployed in 2020.
  — Chris Farrell, Star Tribune, 9 Jan. 2021
• Mechanic finds that not having to work for a living is a lot like being underemployed and poor.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 22 June 2021
• At the same time, millions of out of work or underemployed Americans are struggling to keep a roof over their head and others have become homeless.
  — USA Today, 14 Apr. 2021
• For every parent who is overwhelmed, out of work or underemployed, good people who refuse to let their children see their fear.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 23 Dec. 2017
• Blueprint An underemployed day-care teacher on the south side struggles to put his life in order after a close friend is killed in a random shooting.
  — Chicago Reader, 12 Oct. 2017
• But in a corner of the saloon attached to the legal brothel at Ash Meadows, just across the Nevada line, the underemployed park ranger and philosopher worked on a new manuscript.
  — Ken Layne, latimes.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• The Birmingham of that period was impoverished and filled with un- and underemployed men and boys, many of whom turned to lives of low-level crime to survive.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 10 June 2022
• What are poor, underemployed, and unemployed folks to do with few resources and even less compassion?
  — Susana Morris, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2017
• Back in the late ’60s, Los Angeles was home to plenty of down-on-their-luck actors and underemployed stuntmen, and film fiend Tarantino could probably name most of them.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 25 July 2019
• Once the labor market is ready to absorb underemployed farmers, much of the rest of rural poverty can be eradicated by the right to fully own one’s land.
  — Derek Scissors, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2016
• Egypt and other North African Muslim countries have vast amounts of underemployed labor....
  — WSJ, 28 Oct. 2020
• People with epilepsy who are employed are likely to be underemployed or earn less than workers who do not have epilepsy.
  — Kieran Nicholson, The Denver Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• Data from the African Development Bank Group shows that 15- to 35-year-olds on the continent are vastly underemployed or do not have stable jobs.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• The program is open to Boston residents who are between 18 and 30 years old, are unemployed or underemployed, and lack a clear career track.
  — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2022
• King said one of the goals of her company is to provide jobs for underemployed Detroit residents and to connect more people to a growing area of the industry.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 21 Oct. 2021
• Statistics show that about 70 to 90 percent of people with autism in the U.S. are highly underemployed or unemployed.
  — Meredith Newman, The Seattle Times, 7 Dec. 2017
• Because of industries that have closed in Northeast Ohio, Bartlett said there’s many skilled workers who are underemployed that are qualified for the shipyard jobs.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2022
• The hiring event will offer jobs to those that are underemployed and AARP will assist senior citizens looking to reenter the workforce.
  — Raisa Habersham, ajc, 1 Nov. 2019
• In the event, the police stationed at every polling station were thankfully underemployed.
  — The Economist, 25 Nov. 2019
• People who are underemployed like Nikki make up a huge part of Generation Z — 35%.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 30 Oct. 2020
• The economic shock of the pandemic has left millions of Europeans without a job, and millions more underemployed.
  — Zoe Schneeweiss, Bloomberg.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• That means workers who are unemployed or underemployed as a result of the coronavirus should be able to receive benefits right away.
  — Sona Patel, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2020
• And unemployment figures do not show the full scope of struggling renters, Ms. Williams said, because many who are out of work or are underemployed were paid in cash, and therefore not recorded by official counts.
  — David W. Chen, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
• The state is warning payday lenders not to take advantage of unemployed and underemployed workers during the crisis.
  — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2021
• Jobs that once went to teenagers, mostly retail and restaurant jobs, are increasingly going to underemployed adults.
  — Jeffrey J. Selingo, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• The city also created a program that trained about 75 unemployed and underemployed residents to work on the line replacement crews, Adeem said.
  — David Porter, ajc, 7 Nov. 2021
• The report noted that a key reason why some countries face labor shortages despite having ample numbers of unemployed or underemployed workers is a mismatch between jobs and skills and education.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune Asia, 28 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024