Underemployment Quotes

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

  Julian Bond

  Unemployment, Slavery, Periods

  Julian Bond (1972). “A time to speak, a time to act: the movement in politics”

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• We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

  Avi Lewis

  Inequality, Crisis, Joblessness

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• Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high

  Marc Andreessen

  Jobs, Sky, Unemployment

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• With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Want, Clients, Hours

  Welfare bill won't work, key advisers tell Iain Duncan Smith" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find its equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Perfectly Normal, Aberration

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?

  Maud Younger

  Tired, Roots, Evil

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• We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.

  Cornel West

  War, Talking, Drug

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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