Synonyms for unemployment rate
un·em·ploy·men·t rate

Princeton's WordNet

1. unemployment ratenoun

   the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date

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1. • Percentage

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1. Janet Mills:

   Let me be real clear: Maine's unemployment rate is down to 3.3. It was just 2.8 just a couple months ago. We have recovered all the jobs we have lost since the pandemic, during the pandemic, the state's economic growth has been the 11th best in the country, that's what the experts say. Under Mr. LePage's tenure, we were always toward the bottom and one year we were 49th in the country from the last recession.

2. Ryan Sweet:

   This will fan Fed concerns that inflation will overshoot the central bank's 2 percent objective by more than policymakers are willing to stomach, the Fed could be crossing its fingers that the supply side of the economy responds, helping slow or halt the unemployment rate's decline.

3. Brian Moynihan:

   The unemployment rate has stayed very low. Extremely low, that’s one of the challenges for the Fed.

4. President Obama:

   -- July 29 tweetFacts First: Baltimore does not have the worst economic numbers in the United States, though it does rank poorly by several measures.Baltimore had the fourth-worst unemployment rate of major cities in 2018, but its 5.7% rate was substantially better than that of last-place Detroit, which was at 9.0%. In 2017, the Baltimore metropolitan area (which includes more than the city of Baltimore, on which Trump was focusing his attacks) ranked 19th in the country in gross domestic product out of 383 areas studied. The city of Baltimore had a 22.4% poverty rate over the 2013-2017 period, well ahead of such cities as Detroit (37.9%), Bloomington, Indiana (37.5%), and Laredo, Texas (30.6%).Baltimore did have the highest homicide rate of any major city in 2017, so Trump was accurate in his claim about crime.Obama's recordObama and energy -- August 1 rally in CincinnatiFacts First: Obama did encourage the use of renewable energy sources rather than fossil fuels, but he didn't try to.

5. Chairman Jim Clifton:

   There's no other way to say this, the official unemployment rate … amounts to a big lie.