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?
In February 2010, there were about 138,641,000 employed people in the United States. This is according to the Employment Situation Summary published by the U.S. Department of Labor on March 5, 2010. This number represents 90.3% of the reported civilian labor force. Nearly 92.8% of all employed Americans are wage and salary workers.