Unemployment Quotes

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

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.

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

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

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

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.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

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!

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.