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Recent Examples of underemployed
Even underemployed graduates, 52% work in roles not requiring degrees, prefer retail or office jobs over dirty work, despite lower pay.
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
These jobs exist in Boston’s core and provide a clear path to the middle class for those unemployed, underemployed workers, veterans, and or union workers looking to upgrade their skills, and those with employment challenges such as CORIs.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2024
The education system’s college-for-all model is overproducing underemployed knowledge workers.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
His verdict was not unique to underemployed freelance writers in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn.
—Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
These jobs exist in Boston’s core and provide a clear path to the middle class for those unemployed, underemployed workers, veterans, and or union workers looking to upgrade their skills, and those with employment challenges such as CORIs.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 9 Mar. 2024
The education system’s college-for-all model is overproducing underemployed knowledge workers.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 16 Jan. 2025
His verdict was not unique to underemployed freelance writers in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn.
—Matthew Karp, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underemployed
unemployed
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But this is making lemonade out of lemons: the provider role is so deeply intertwined with masculinity that unemployed men are more likely to be impotent.—
Joan C. Williams
June 13,
Literary Hub,
13 June 2025
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This has created an army of unemployed professionals with experience in DEI, foreign aid and public health, for example, competing for scarce jobs in those fields.—
David Hessekiel,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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“Underemployed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underemployed. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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