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?
On average, some 100 million Americans were employed full-time in 2010-2012 â and 70 million of them either hated their jobs or were simply checked out, according to a recent Gallup survey of America's workforce. (Read the entire report [PDF].) This trend actually isn't all that new: The 30 percent of employees engaged at work is at its ...