How to Use jobless in a Sentence

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• In addition, weekly initial jobless claims have slowly been on the rise.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• The overall jobless rate edged down, however, to 5.4% from 5.5%.
  — Jason Douglas, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• Thursday Initial jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, are expected to have risen slightly last week.
  — Rina Torchinsky, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• As for the specter of stagflation, the jobless rate has remained low and steady at 3.6%, though rising interest rates could change that.
  — David Oshinsky, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• Initial jobless claims have been moving higher, but the level so far is consistent with slowing job growth rather than reducing the number of jobs.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Last week, however, initial jobless claims, a gauge of layoffs, rose to the highest level since November based on a four-week moving average.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022
• The jobless rate is near a record low, 3.6%, and the number of job vacancies in the state considerably outnumbers the number of people looking for work.
  — oregonlive, 29 July 2022
• Meanwhile, continuing claims, a proxy for the number of people claiming ongoing jobless benefits, have increased at a much slower rate.
  — Sarah Chaney Cambon, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• An excellent high-frequency indicator for the strength of the labor market is initial claims for jobless benefits since this data is released weekly with only a short lag.
  — Bill Stone, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• The jobless rate stood at 3.9% in April, near a 50-year low.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 24 May 2024
• 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 nation’s jobless rate is in the midst of a 30-month streak of being at or below 4%.
  — Cnn.com, The Mercury News, 28 June 2024
• 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
• The jobless rate rose but not by much The unemployment rate rose from 3.8% to 3.9%.
  — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
• Each of the nation’s largest metros has seen its jobless rate drop from last year.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2022
• The three economic reports we’ll be focused on are the consumer price index Wednesday, followed by the producer price index and initial jobless claims Thursday.
  — Jeff Marks,kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024
• But in Season 3, Cory faltered, perhaps for the first time in his life, and was left jobless by the end of the finale.
  — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
• 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
• The improvement marked the first time in nearly two years that the statewide jobless rate decreased.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
• That means China now has about 21 million jobless youth in cities and towns.
  — Laura He, CNN, 9 Sep. 2022
• Reid thinks a half-point rate cut becomes likely if the jobless rate rises to 4.4%.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 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
• Initial jobless claims rose the most since August 2023.
  — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
• 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
• But that’s down from two openings per jobless workers the prior month.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• California’s most recent jobless rate, for July, was 5.2%, the second highest in the U.S. after Nevada.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024