Unemployment Quotes

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Today in May 1938, the world around us suffers from the anxiety which the unemployment of millions brings with it. In Germany we begin to be anxious because we have not enough workmen.

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

If you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it.

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a man out of life.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them.

The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

There is no unemployment in eco-systems

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

Does anybody has President Obama's phone number? 'Cause I have figure out why the unemployment rate in the United States is so high. Because Zack Ryder's doing all the jobs.

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

I always tell actors, "Don't think of it as unemployment when you don't have a job. You have to think of it as being in preparation for your next job." You have to be always preparing for success.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

The final solution for unemployment is work.

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.