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?
The 10 states listed here boast the highest number of IT firms. Despite disappointing employment growth in the U.S. as a whole -- the unemployment rate is at 6.7 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) -- the IT job market is faring better with an unemployment rate of only 3.3 percent. Where are these jobs?