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Lopez says she and her friends are all under-employed, working in restaurants or part-time, even though they have university degrees.
Spain Sets Europe's Unemployment Record, But Remains Economic Engine 2011
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Lopez says she and her friends are all under-employed, working in restaurants or part-time, even though they have university degrees.
Spain Sets Europe's Unemployment Record, But Remains Economic Engine 2011
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If this group had paid a tenth as much attention to the housing bubble as they are now paying to the deficit projections, we would not be sitting around with 25 million who are unemployed, under-employed or out of the workforce altogether.
Dean Baker: The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters Dean Baker 2011
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In his figures, Hindery accounts for "discouraged workers" who just stop trying to get new jobs and those who are "under-employed", i.e., partially but not completely employed.
Steve Clemons: Real Unemployment Shows US Economy Short 20 Million Jobs Steve Clemons 2011
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If this group had paid a tenth as much attention to the housing bubble as they are now paying to the deficit projections, we would not be sitting around with 25 million who are unemployed, under-employed or out of the workforce altogether.
Dean Baker: The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters Dean Baker 2011
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But there are at least 25 million un- or under-employed.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Hoodwinked! Selling Job Despair as "The New Normal" RJ 2011
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It too had almost no native nomenklatura and a mass of under-employed young men.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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So instead of just pushing to change the law, now the anti-abortionists want to take the choice away from low-income and under-employed women.
FRC spot looks to tie public option to abortion funding 2009
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A few hundred self-described "over-educated and under-employed" young people turned up for several days to camp out and carry cardboard signs.
Social Media March on Wall Street L. Gordon Crovitz 2011
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If this group had paid a tenth as much attention to the housing bubble as they are now paying to the deficit projections, we would not be sitting around with 25 million who are unemployed, under-employed or out of the workforce altogether.
Dean Baker: The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters Dean Baker 2011
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