Sentence examples for were in work from inspiring English sources

In 2000, 65% of working-age Americans were in work; since then the proportion has fallen, during good years as well as bad, to the current level of 59%.Worse, it seems likely that this wave of technological disruption to the job market has only just started.

One in five tenants were in work.

In total, 31.09 million people were in work, up 413,000 on a year earlier.

It would be paid to everyone, whether or not they were in work.

These patients fell into two groups: the first were in work, and previously well.

(In 2013-14, only 6.8% of learning disabled people were in work, compared with 7% in 2012-13).

About 66% of the claimants were in work, according to the same data, which does not include students.

Labour said as many as 65% of tax credit recipients were in work, and not on welfare as traditionally defined.

Combining junior doctors, other doctors and consultants, the data suggested 72% of the total workforce were in work, it said.

Under the plan, similar to the current system, no student would pay back their loans until they were in work.

The late 1990s saw a rapid "tightening" of labour markets (that is, in crude terms, plenty of people were in work; and the economy was "good").