Unemployment Rate 

The difference between hiring graduate and students compared to hires experienced professionals and then mixing them together and kicking some out and hiring at random.

No one could believe there where so many unemployed experieced people with degrees, it must be the unemployment rate. But it could also be the morons prioritizing people without work degree hires for ones without who have more experience.

Unemployment Rate by Patrick the Starfish001 September 28, 2022

Unemployment Gingivitis 

When you become unemployed and start giving head for a living, resulting in gingivitis.

"Dang, My friend Austin really has a bad case of unemployment gingivitis"

Unemployment Gingivitis by Jacobo47 July 21, 2024

Unemploymentese 

Unemploymentese is a type of language where you abbreviate every single word in a sentence to save time

Person1: icl ts pmo sm n sb rn ngl, r u srsly srs n fr rn vro? lol atp js go 💔… b fr vro, idek nm, brb gng gtg atm lmao, bt ts pyo 2 js lmk lol onb fr
Person2: stop speaking unemploymentese nigga

Unemploymentese by ZakovZalash March 5, 2025

Unemployment Rationalization

The argument that joblessness is primarily a result of individual skill gaps ("learn to code"), a lack of motivation, or an overly generous safety net, rather than a structural feature of capitalist economies (e.g., cyclical crises, automation for profit, offshoring). The unemployed are framed as a residual, problematic class.

Example: During an economic downturn, pundits blame unemployment on workers being "too picky" or on unemployment benefits "disincentivizing work." This unemployment rationalization ignores the collapse of aggregate demand and corporate layoffs, placing the burden of systemic failure on the individual's supposed moral or technical deficiencies.

Unemployment Rationalization by Abzugal February 8, 2026

Unemployment

having no job when your age is above like 20 or 30.

Dan is really in the depths of Unemployment. bro plays Fornite all day and never goes outside.

Unemployment by appleapple_1 December 28, 2025

headline unemployment

(ECONOMICS) Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate). Does not include discouraged workers. Also referred to as "U-3" by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The BLS regularly publishes six estimates of unemployment. The others are U-1, U-3, U-4, U-5, and U-6. Eurostat publishes one monthly estimate of unemployment for the European Union, which is approximately midway between U-3 and U-4.

The unemployment statistics for the USA are collected through a monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) (also known as the household survey) and an establishment survey.

Given the way the government's headline unemployment rate is calculated, it can never reach 14%. This is because the civilian labor force includes only people who are working or have looked for a job in the previous four weeks. When the economy gets really bad (like now), unemployed workers get discouraged and give up looking for jobs. This causes the civilian labor force to decline as fast or faster than total employment.

{Louis Woodhill, "On Track for 14% Unemployment," RealClearMarkets (12 Jan 2010)}

headline unemployment by Abu Yahya July 19, 2010

Pre-Unemployment 

See Pre-Unemployed

Pre-Unemployment is the worst part of graduating without a job offer.

Pre-Unemployment by CmeDiG April 30, 2011