How to Use jobless in a Sentence

jobless

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  • 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 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 stayed flat in San Mateo County, at 2.8%.
    — Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Weekly jobless claims are at their lowest level in more than a year.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Since then, the rate of inflation has fallen by more than half, while the jobless rate has edged up only two-tenths of a point, from 3.4 per cent to 3.6 per cent.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • The jobless rate only counts people who do not have a job and are actively looking for one.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 2 June 2023
  • The government said Thursday that the number of jobless claims fell last week to its lowest level since April.
    — Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2023
  • In the past, an increase that large in the jobless rate has occurred only during recessions.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Feb. 2023
  • The jobless rate is due on Tuesday, and is expected to show a still-tight labor market and sticky wage pressure.
    — Andrew Davis, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Data out Thursday showed jobless claims fell last week.
    — WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • That has the jobless rate at its highest level since January 2022.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The decline in the jobless rate to 3.5% was due to an increase in the labor participation rate, or the share of working-age adults who are employed.
    — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Loneliness, hunger and stress pushed some jobless workers toward dark turns of thought.
    — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Oregon’s jobless rate has risen a full percentage point since summer, to 4.5%.
    — oregonlive, 30 Jan. 2023
  • San Diego County’s jobless rate rose to 3.7 percent in January as the region shed retail and some tech jobs.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • San Diego County’s jobless rate hasn’t been this high since the start of 2022 when the economy was still climbing out of pandemic lockdowns.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Summer is usually when the jobless rate climbs as tens of millions of graduates flood the market.
    — Time, 15 June 2023
  • The weekly jobless claims reports give an even more up-to-date sense of the labor market than the monthly employment reports.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The jobless rate was 2.6 percent last month, just a tick above July’s all-time low and 1.2 percentage points below the US average.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Millions of people are jobless, forced to beg, borrow or scavenge to survive.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Oregon’s jobless rate fell below 4% for the first time in nearly a year in May, according to new state data out Wednesday.
    — oregonlive, 14 June 2023
  • But things get bad when a late-night TV host recognizes him and his many disguises, leaving him exposed—and jobless.
    — Carlie Cooper, ELLE, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Today, the state’s jobless rate hovers at 3.3 percent, with plenty of job openings, even amid a string of tech sector layoffs.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The weekly jobless claims number has been closely watched over the past year, given the Fed has been hiking aggressively.
    — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 20 Apr. 2023

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