for the record, when he was born, I was chronically unemployed.

They worked with drug addicts and alcoholics, former offenders and the chronically unemployed to offer an alternative to government programs.

In eastern Germany, where entire industries have been abandoned, there are 707,000 chronically unemployed in a population of 13.5 million.

Half her wages went to help her chronically unemployed parents.

What about the alcoholics, the chronically unemployed, the angry antisocial loners of the past?

The central problem was that the chronically unemployed could not be covered by insurance.

The bakery's workers had been chronically unemployed before Greyston taught them how to cook.

Other proposals, like restricting benefits to the chronically unemployed, were watered down under pressure from the unions.

As if to forestall criticism, they call themselves "bleeding hearts" for sympathizing with the poor and chronically unemployed.

The term 'underclass' is used to refer to those people who are "chronically unemployed", and in many instances have been for generations.