Meaning: Exhausted. Synonyms: jaded; wearied. Context example: my father's words had left me jaded and depressed. Similar: tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Text Size. One of the many startling results in Friday's unemployment report for June was how few American adults are currently employed. Even though the unemployment rate is technically 9.2%, the employment-population ratio fell to 58.2%, matching its recession low. But it might help to put this number into perspective: just how bad is it?
1 Trump claimed âAfrican American youth is 58 percent unemployed.â The official unemployment rate for blacks ages 16 to 19 in January was 25.2 percent.  Trump said a ârecent pollâ showed 25 percent of blacks support him in a hypothetical race against Hillary Clinton. That ârecent pollâ is actually from September.