unemployed people vs plural

unemployed people and plural both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
unemployed people	Yes	No	No	No
plural	Yes	Yes	No	No

unemployed people (noun)	plural (noun)
people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group)	the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

unemployed people (adjective)	plural (adjective)
	grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
	composed of more than one member, set, or kind