Sixty-one percent of the "underemployed" -- those who are either out of work or working part time and want full-time jobs -- are not hopeful they will find a job in the next four weeks, according to Gallup tracking polls conducted Jan. 2-31.
Sixty-eight percent of those working part time are not optimistic about finding a full-time job and 55 percent of those unemployed are not hopeful about their prospects.
Gallup says reasons for the difference in the outlook of the two "underemployed" categories are that those who are unemployed are actively searching for jobs while part-timers may have given up, and because the part-timers' obligations to their current jobs restrict their ability to look for new ones.
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