In a Sydney study of access to health care for recently arrived refugee families, it was found that few owned a house or car, nearly all were unemployed, and most did not have functional English language skills [ 31].
While about 8 percent of Americans are unemployed, nearly a quarter of Americans say they were laid off at some point during the recession or afterward, according to the survey.
The declining unemployment numbers Trump touts on Twitter do not account for the nearly 2.3 million "unemployed" African Americans in prison, who make up nearly 34% of the total US prison population.
Almost one quarter of Navajo people are unemployed -- nearly triple the national rate.
People with disabilities represent a large segment of the U.S. population whose increased inclusion in the workforce could yield great benefits for society: nearly 13% of the U.S. population identifies as having a disability, but nearly 82% are unemployed.
Among the remainder, nearly half are unemployed.
Only 50percentt of Central Harlem's men were in the labor force as of 1999, compared with 70percentt citywide, and more than 16percentt were unemployed, nearly three times the citywide rate.
McCarthy was unemployed, nearly broke, recently divorced and was having a hard time adapting to civilian life.
Nearly 4 million unemployed currently receive federal benefits.
He spent nearly a year unemployed, though he managed to get by with some Internet entrepreneurship, food stamps, unemployment and, as a veteran, some assistance from the VA.
