Definition of "worklessness" []

• Unemployment; the state of being without paid work (noun)

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• ""We know that long-term worklessness is one of the greatest known risks to public health," Sir Mansel said - with suicide risk increasing and people at greater risk than most dangerous jobs."
• ""Previous recessions left a devastating legacy of long-term worklessness in many communities and the real test for government policy is now to ensure that these people do not become locked-in to longer-term unemployment and inactivity.""
• "Osborne warned that increasing numbers of people were living on "out-of-work" benefits and that a greater proportion of children in the UK were growing up in "worklessness" than anywhere else in Europe."