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?
Unemployment Rate in the United States averaged 5.83 percent from 1948 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953.948 - 2015. percent. Monthly. In the United States, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.