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Unemployment Quotes

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Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program
Nancy Pelosi

Subsidized employment is marshalling more jobs than any other initiative.
Authors on Unemployment Quotes: Milton Friedman Ludwig von Mises Margaret Thatcher William Vickrey Henry Ford Ronald Reagan Eleanor Roosevelt Alexis Tsipras Martha Quinn Norman Lamont Rush Limbaugh Calvin Coolidge Paul Ormerod Brian Sandoval Colin Powell Barry Eichengreen Jesse Jackson Bob Black J. Stalin Jimmy Carter David Lloyd George Scott Walker Phil Mickelson Abdallah II Gemma Chan Joseph Stalin Craig Kilborn Robert Capa Jay Leno Evo Morales Ray Davies Gerald Celente Murray Rothbard
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The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
Whitney M. Young

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For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell

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The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.
Franklin Raines

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And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid
John Cornyn

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Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
Edward Heath

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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
William Barrett

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Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.
Larry Elder

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Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
William Beveridge

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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond

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Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
Jane Addams

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Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
Brian Sandoval

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Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
Ludwig von Mises

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So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.
Paul Krugman

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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
Arthur C. Clarke

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There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Milton Friedman

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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman

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No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!
Emilia Clarke

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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
Evo Morales

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Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.
Murray Rothbard

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An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
John Mellencamp

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In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.
Jay Leno

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Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.
Ellen Wilkinson

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Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
Laurence J. Peter

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Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
David Lloyd George

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Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan

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Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
Eamon de Valera

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Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.
Fred Upton

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What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.
Gerald Celente

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Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.
Janet Yellen

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There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.
Joseph Stalin

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The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment
Robert Capa

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If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.
Norman Lamont

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Ahh, Otunga. I hope you keep depending on your wife. I hope she keeps making movies because while she's walking the red carpet, you're gonna be walking the unemployment line.
Edge

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I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
Nicolas Sarkozy

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I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.
Nick Offerman

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With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.
Jo Ann Emerson

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Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.
Ludwig von Mises

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It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.
William J. Brennan

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If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.
Phil Mickelson

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

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Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.
Joan Robinson

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

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

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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
David Caruso

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