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?
However, for many Americans the restaurant industry constitutes their entire career. Over 58 percent of all workers in the industry are 25 and older, and 12 percent of these are 55 and older. 6 During the current downturn, many older Americans have fallen back on jobs in the restaurant industry, as they