The phrase "rising unemployment" means that more and more people in a particular area or country are losing their jobs and becoming unemployed. Full definition
Higher energy prices coupled with rising unemployment could push hundreds of thousands more homes into fuel poverty, a group of influential government advisors has said. (politics.co.uk)
Is it because the public sector pay freeze and rising unemployment means that average earnings will be less than inflation over the next two years? (nextleft.org)
Rising unemployment figures were another sign «of the economic mistakes of the past decade» and said no government in modern times had been left with «such a terrible economic inheritance». (news.bbc.co.uk)