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unemployment rate

NOUN
  1. the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date

How To Use unemployment rate In A Sentence

  • Unemployment rates for railroad conductors, logging workers and metalworkers fell sharply — seven percentage points or more — in 2010 while jobless rates among construction laborers and roofers rose, according to new data from the Labor Department. Manufacturing, Logistics See Job Gains
  • The unemployment rate plunged sharply.
  • Well, simple math tells me that if such were to happen, the unemployment rate would fall to near 7%, a good start, and maybe enough to re-elect the president. Extended Unemployment Benefits Versus Employment
  • In September, the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 16 and 24 hovered morosely at 18.1 percent, nearly double the national average for that month. Balancing the recession on the backs of the young « Dating Jesus
  • But today the unemployment rate among Negroes is twice that of Whites. April « 2008 « Bill Ayers
  • The unemployment rates did not differ significantly in these darker areas, being high for both groups.
  • The unemployment rate is rising in that country.
  • Doyle: I didn't realize you were a Keynsian economics! might want to check your economic history of the US--all of Roosevelt's programs did little to pull us out of the degression; Look at the unemployment rate at the beginning of WWII, which if memory serves was nearly 20%. "I think we're slipping toward a recession. A couple of people that I met on the street, they work in construction. They tell me it's slowed down."
  • The federal formula for determining funding amounts, Atha says, is based in large part on unemployment rates.
  • Black unemployment rate jumped to 17 percent last year.
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