underemployed

How To Use underemployed In A Sentence

• Adding those people plus others who are working part time but would prefer full-time jobs, nearly 27 million are "underemployed" - 17.1 percent of American adults, up from 16.7 percent in August and close to a record. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
• We're seeing more clients that have -- what we call underemployed, where they may be holding multiple jobs to make ends meet. CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2009
• In Hong Kong, a person is defined as underemployed when he or she is hired to work less than 35 hours a week.
• And according to a study conducted by the state, the region has 125,000 underemployed workers who could be trained for new or more advanced jobs.
• Those economies which have successfully switched underemployed agricultural labour into manufacturing and service activities have generally achieved significant real economic growth rates.
• A third of the population is unemployed, and many more people are underemployed and undereducated, he says.
• I suppose it would remain popular at least until all the investment capital leaves the province, leaving an underemployed (but very highly educated!) workforce.
• Taylor has joined the burgeoning ranks of the "underemployed" - the 8.9 million Americans who would prefer full-time jobs but must make do with part-time work. The Memphis Daily News
• The name isn't important, but since I'm an underemployed historian, I'll use subtext because these words are about all I have to show for my education.
• As someone who has had direct experience with layoffs, I can tell you for sure that being slightly underemployed is WAY better than being unemployed. Matthew Yglesias » Time to Invest in Netflix Stock