Evan Osnos

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

American Journalist

John Lewis

The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.

American Politician

Ron Fournier

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?

Jerry Costello

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Joe Baca

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Brianna Keilar

On average, military spouses are significantly more educated than their civilian counterparts, but much more likely to be unemployed or underemployed.

Australian Journalist

Lindsey Graham

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Jack Kingston

Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.

James D. Watson

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

American Scientist

Mario Diaz-Balart

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

Underemployed often implies a sense of dissatisfaction with job roles not matching qualifications.

Job Dissatisfaction

Use 'underemployed' to describe job situations affected by economic downturns where skilled work is scarce.

Economic Climate

'Underemployed' does not mean part-time; it involves over-qualification or underutilization of skills.

Not Part-time

 running errands around his life. And 70 percent of this new labor force were previously unemployed or underemployed. I think TaskRabbit and other examples of collaborative consumption are like lemonade stands on steroids. They're just brilliant.

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 as it turns out when tens of millions of people are unemployed or underemployed there's a fair amount of interest in what technology might be doing to the