Jobless Quotes

• In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.

  Dave Reichert

  Years, Population, Washington State

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• The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.

  Karl Rove

  Recovery, Usa, Decision

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• To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?

  Richard D. Wolff

  Cutting, Debate, Rich

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• A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

  Fats Domino

  Inspirational, Funny, Education

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to rely on someone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Jobs, Self Confidence, People

  Source: www.rfa.org

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• There's no reason someone who has fought for their country should be homeless of jobless.

  Chris Kyle

  Country, Homeless, Reason

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• The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.

  Charles J. Colgan

  Recovery, Reality, Maine

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• How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Work, Skills

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• The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

  Slappy White

  Funny, Morning, Jobs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Children, War

  Democratic Nomination Victory Speech, delivered 3 June 2008, Saint Paul, Minnesota

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

  William Barrett

  Unemployment, Hunger, Worst

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• Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.

  Elaine Chao

  Fashion, Moving, Recovery

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• As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

  Tim Scott

  School, Kids, Frustration

  "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.

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

  George W. Bush

  Running, Jobs, Long

  "Daschle optimistic on stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. December 3, 2001.

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• I was teasing my brother that he was penniless, homeless, jobless. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force: it's the world of work and economics. It doesn't mean that he isn't influenced by racism, but when he wakes up in the morning the thing that's driving his world is really issues of class, economics and power as they articulate themselves.

  Bell Hooks

  Morning, Brother, Mean

  Source: nefac.net

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• Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jobless and desperate. They also knew they were ruled by a paranoid king who was more comfortable with Parisian financiers than his own subjects.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Kings, Average, Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Homebody: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

  Edward Heath

  Unemployment, Unemployed, Importance

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• There is no such thing as a 'free' government benefit. Ask small-business owners who are footing skyrocketing bills for bottomless jobless benefits.

  Michelle Malkin

  Government, Benefits, Bills

  "Small-Biz Killers: Who Pays for Jobless Benefits?" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 08, 2010.

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• Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Jobs, Weekend, Volunteer

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• We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of poor people are going to remain jobless, locked out of the mainstream economy, unless and until they have a quality education that prepares them well for the new economy. There has got to be much more collaboration between the two movements and a greater appreciation for the work of the advocates in each community. It's got to be a movement that's about education, not incarceration - about jobs, not jails.

  Michelle Alexander

  Appreciation, Jobs, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

  Don Tapscott

  Mother, Recovery, Creating

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• Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

  Fred Thompson

  Numbers, Hands, Long

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?

  K.P. Yohannan

  Cities, People, Missionary

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