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 2013, most working Americans were paid at hourly rates. Of those hourly paid workers, just 4.3 percent earned the federal minimum wage ($7.25) or less. -- Of those minimum wage earners, half were younger than 25 and 62 percent were women.