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.
  — Shobhana Chandra, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rates of underemployment, defined as share of graduates working in jobs that usually don't require a college degree.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• Young people in Nigeria face chronic unemployment and underemployment, so the president's remarks have hit a raw nerve in a country where many are struggling in a tough economic climate.
  — Munachim Amah and Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
• With the local economy in the doldrums, except for farming, casual workers are heading for a prolonged period of underemployment and hunger.
  — Jean Drèze, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2020
• But underemployment — people working not enough hours — remains a challenge.
  — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
• Bridging even a part of this gap, and thus reducing the underemployment of workforces in the rich world, could expand the productive output of Western technology far more than greater receptiveness to surveillance in China does.
  — Jaron Lanier, Wired, 15 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024