How to Use underemployment in a Sentence

underemployment

noun

• The good news is that underemployment has fallen just as fast as the standard benchmark over the past two years.
  — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 May 2022
• But this still doesn’t explain the wide underemployment in the tech sector.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 4 May 2018
• Although the unemployment rate, at 5.6%, is low by the standards of recent decades, underemployment is close to a record.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• Yellen, for her part, hasn’t ridiculed the unemployment rate, but highlights underemployment as a key gauge.
  — Sho Chandra, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2017
• Yellen, for her part, hasn't ridiculed the unemployment rate, but highlights underemployment as a key gauge.
  — Shobhana Chandra, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
• Adding underemployment, the figure more than doubles to almost one quarter of the work force, or 27 million people.
  — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
• The nation's underemployment rate, which looks at people who are unemployed as well as those who are working part time but would prefer full time work, fell to 6.9%.
  — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
• Moreover, the exodus from the land has slowed, implying that the problem of underemployment is not going away.
  — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
• Due to the effects of underemployment, stagnant wages, and rising costs of living, millions of Americans struggle to get by.
  — Vincent Andrunas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
• The pilot programs will take place in Northeast Hartford and Frog Hollow, two sections of the city with high concentrations of underemployment and poverty.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• The construction trades program is meant to target underemployment and help the construction industry fill a need for skilled workers.
  — Rachel Berry, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
• The unemployment rate has narrowed since the Great Recession from more than 15% to 3.8%, but Witherspoon said that number masks the shift to underemployment that weighs on the community.
  — Jamie McGee, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2018
• Our households’ resources waned under the strain of the systemic underemployment and mass incarceration of black men.
  — Ashley Nkadi, The Root, 13 Dec. 2017
• Still, the broadest measure of underemployment, which also includes part-time workers who would like full-time work, has been unchanged since February.
  — WSJ, 3 May 2019
• Plus, for the large numbers of people facing unemployment or underemployment, growing food can feel like a bulwark against hunger.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
• Gauges of unemployment and underemployment have held steady after declining earlier this year, and the share of workers 25 to 54 years old who have jobs declined in August.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• Changing your job for one that gives you sufficient challenge and fulfillment is yet another way to fix the underemployment issue.
  — Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• As a result, our blood banks reached near-empty levels, and underemployment forced several thousands to wait in line at North Texas Food Bank distributions.
  — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 3 June 2021
• Because unemployment and underemployment levels have dropped, 2015 grads will be able find jobs more easily than in past years.
  — Bailey Malone Kircher, Seventeen, 29 May 2015
• The odds of underemployment for graduates who had at least one internship are, on average, 48.5% lower than those who had no internships.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 26 Feb. 2024
• Experts say the unemployment and underemployment rate for autistic people in the United States falls anywhere between 50% and 90%.
  — Jamie Wax and David McAlpine, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2020
• Still, where the government’s fiscal priorities, based on the recent Union Budgets, have continued to miss the mark is on tackling the nation’s challenge of underemployment.
  — Deepanshu Mohan, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2022
• Unemployment and underemployment of parents and care-givers hurts their children, too.
  — Chuck Slocum, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2019
• If those millions of working-age women and men could be lifted from underemployment in the informal sector to well-paying jobs, the gains in overall prosperity would far outweigh the burden of supporting the old and the very young.
  — Gurcharan Das, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2019
• Notably, some low-paying jobs have low rates of underemployment, such as education.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2023
• With the national jobless rate near a 16-year low, these pockets of underemployment are a wellspring for companies that recognize most new hires already have jobs but can be poached with better pay and room for advancement.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2017
• Moreover, those with at least a bachelor’s degree tend to face less unemployment and underemployment.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2023
• The country’s north is suffering from high levels of underemployment, low productivity, and poor health care.
  — Roland Benedikter, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2017
• And the unemployment rate in May held steady at 3.6 percent — nearly a 50-year low — while a more comprehensive gauge of underemployment actually edged lower.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 9 June 2019
• Since the late 1970s, the Mexican government had understood that its citizens’ emigration to the United States helped reduce high domestic rates of unemployment and underemployment.
  — Ana Raquel Minian, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024