How to Use underemployment in a Sentence

underemployment

noun
  • But this still doesn’t explain the wide underemployment in the tech sector.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 4 May 2018
  • The good news is that underemployment has fallen just as fast as the standard benchmark over the past two years.
    — Mike Rogoway | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 May 2022
  • Yellen, for her part, hasn’t ridiculed the unemployment rate, but highlights underemployment as a key gauge.
    — Sho Chandra, Bloomberg.com, 1 June 2017
  • Yellen, for her part, hasn't ridiculed the unemployment rate, but highlights underemployment as a key gauge.
    — Shobhana Chandra, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • In fact, the odds of underemployment for graduates who did a stint as an intern were nearly 50% lower than their peers who did not.
    — Allie Danziger, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Notably, some low-paying jobs have low rates of underemployment, such as education.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Moreover, the exodus from the land has slowed, implying that the problem of underemployment is not going away.
    — The Economist, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Unemployment and underemployment of parents and care-givers hurts their children, too.
    — Chuck Slocum, Twin Cities, 28 Sep. 2019
  • But underemployment — people working not enough hours — remains a challenge.
    — Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz, chicagotribune.com, 12 May 2017
  • Adding underemployment, the figure more than doubles to almost one quarter of the work force, or 27 million people.
    — Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Plus, for the large numbers of people facing unemployment or underemployment, growing food can feel like a bulwark against hunger.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Johnson says underemployment also helps explain why many veterans quit their first civilian job soon after being hired.
    — Monique John, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Changing your job for one that gives you sufficient challenge and fulfillment is yet another way to fix the underemployment issue.
    — Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Moreover, those with at least a bachelor’s degree tend to face less unemployment and underemployment.
    — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Our households’ resources waned under the strain of the systemic underemployment and mass incarceration of black men.
    — Ashley Nkadi, The Root, 13 Dec. 2017
  • Students must sign up by October 6 to gain crucial skills and combat underemployment.
    — Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The construction trades program is meant to target underemployment and help the construction industry fill a need for skilled workers.
    — Rachel Berry, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The country’s north is suffering from high levels of underemployment, low productivity, and poor health care.
    — Roland Benedikter, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Rates of underemployment, defined as share of graduates working in jobs that usually don't require a college degree.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Due to the effects of underemployment, stagnant wages, and rising costs of living, millions of Americans struggle to get by.
    — Vincent Andrunas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2019
  • Still, the broadest measure of underemployment, which also includes part-time workers who would like full-time work, has been unchanged since February.
    — WSJ, 3 May 2019
  • Because unemployment and underemployment levels have dropped, 2015 grads will be able find jobs more easily than in past years.
    — Bailey Malone Kircher, Seventeen, 29 May 2015
  • Work stress was measured by an analysis of average length of workweek, commuter stress, unemployment and underemployment rates and income growth.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 18 July 2017
  • Which makes life even harder for those struggling with unemployment or underemployment and lack of career pathways – the very thing that’s making homebuilding more expensive.
    — Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • With the local economy in the doldrums, except for farming, casual workers are heading for a prolonged period of underemployment and hunger.
    — Jean Drèze, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The rate of underemployment is low, and the rate of labor-force participation is high, meaning that there’s no pool of discouraged workers lurking behind the marquee jobs statistics.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026
  • Rising cost of food Difficult times are mounting for many Old City residents, with unemployment and underemployment high.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
  • Young people in Nigeria face chronic unemployment and underemployment, so the president's remarks have hit a raw nerve in a country where many are struggling in a tough economic climate.
    — Munachim Amah and Bukola Adebayo, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Indonesia already has a significant underemployment problem, with almost 30% of people with jobs working less than 35 hours a week.
    — Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The underemployment of college graduates is a problem that has been steadily worsening as the number of graduates has increased faster than the number of jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree.
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022

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