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Recent Examples of underemployed
Over time, this technology would eliminate jobs, creating a permanently unemployed and underemployed portion of the population.
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Robin Varghese, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
Recent employment statistics suggest that adults with neurodivergent conditions are one of the most unemployed and underemployed groups in the world.
—Julie Kratz, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
In fact, underemployed graduates’ salaries are closer to those of high school diploma holders than workers employed in college-level jobs.
—Preston Cooper, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, policymakers in both parties came to see underemployed African-American men less as an object of economic reform and more as a danger to public safety to be controlled through militarized policing and mass imprisonment.
—Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Robin Varghese, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
Recent employment statistics suggest that adults with neurodivergent conditions are one of the most unemployed and underemployed groups in the world.
—Julie Kratz, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
In fact, underemployed graduates’ salaries are closer to those of high school diploma holders than workers employed in college-level jobs.
—Preston Cooper, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, policymakers in both parties came to see underemployed African-American men less as an object of economic reform and more as a danger to public safety to be controlled through militarized policing and mass imprisonment.
—Ben Zdencanovic, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underemployed
unemployed
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Venues of all sizes have been shuttered and many music industry members are now unemployed, from band members, talent agents, stage crew staff and audio engineers to tour bus drivers, box office employees, security guards and backstage caterers.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
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And more female workers — 28.6% — are functionally unemployed than male workers, whose true rate of unemployment stands at 20%, according to LISEP.—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
26 May 2025
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“Underemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underemployed. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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