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  • · There is no easy fix for 15 million unemployables so 9 percent or better unemployment rolls on several more years.

    Probing The Bull Market's Soft Underbelly Martin T. Sosnoff 2011

  • Oh well, well have a whole population of self-accualized unemployed unemployables living in poverty. —

    Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • This wasn't lost on all our unemployables and millions of part-timers living off food stamps who are populists whether they know it or not.

    Get Briefed: Paul Volcker 2010

  • Massachusetts goes Republican with independent crossovers so Obama rolls up his sleeves and trashes Wall Street, a rich pot of meringue eaters who coin money while unemployables cash in food stamps.

    Get Briefed: Paul Volcker 2010

  • Armed with Mom's credit card and brand new Birkenstocks, these utterly useless unemployables left the boredom of capitalism and democracy to fly to Nicaragua and smother the locals with compassion, digging wells, teaching in the regime's so — called 'literacy programs', dishing out abortions (too many of you dark — skinned people, dears!), and mostly getting drunk with the new communist elite.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Skilled workers in transition and the flat unemployables make up most of this group.

    Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Perhaps more people are employable, because fewer unemployables were born.

    Do We Care About Truth? 2008

  • She also estimated that a second group of "illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends" could be segregated "on farms and open spaces as long as necessary for the strengthening and development of moral conduct."

    Morality is Objective (And People Are Wrong) 2006

  • That was more or less new to me, after Burma, but the driyel which the middle classes were still talking (‘These unemployed are all unemployables’, etc., etc.) failed to deceive me.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • Farmers should not be forced to act as a dormitory for industrial workers and their families, or for the nation's unemployables, the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) told parliamentary hearings on the Extension of Security of Tenure Bill on Tuesday.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

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