Unemployment Rate Quotes

• What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, New Normal, People

  "CBS 'Early Show' Touted Softest Part of Obama '60 Minutes' Interview, Ignored Tough Questions". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.mrc.org. November 7, 2010.

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• The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.

  Anna Quindlen

  Country, United States, Unemployment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth is in the field of Republican presidential candidates.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Years, Presidential

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• During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

  James Q. Wilson

  Educational, San Francisco, Years

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• 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.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Unemployment, Gone, Acres

  Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

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• Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

  Marsha Blackburn

  America, Government, Entrepreneur

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• Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Country, College, Keys

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• 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.

  Zack Ryder

  Jobs, Phones, Wwe

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• Here in Iowa, as a state senator, I have worked hard to find solutions that work for our state and as a result we've reduced taxes and lowered the unemployment rate. We have done that through hard work and sticking to our Iowa values. In the final months of this campaign I'll be asking voters to send me, and those Iowa values, to Washington, D.C.

  Joni Ernst

  Hard Work, Iowa, Finals

  Source: hotair.com

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• There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.

  Jim Clifton

  Lying, Long, Suffering

  "Gallup CEO Blasts Press's Complacency in Covering Unemployment and Underemployment" by Tom Blumer, www.newsbusters.org. February 4, 2015.

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• I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Keys, Years

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.newsbusters.org. May 23, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Real, Technology

  Source: aalbc.com

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• We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Numbers, Unemployment

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Unemployment, Gaps

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I'm not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing fingers, but I am interested in trying to figure out how we come together to chart a better way forward and one that will restore confidence in, you know, small and medium-size businesses and consumers and begin to chip away at the unemployment rate.

  Hillary Clinton

  Way Forward, Trying, Together

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

  Nat Hentoff

  Heart, Long, People

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, Issues

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.

  David Remnick

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And that is reflected in the fact that (whilst of course there are people who are still unemployed) our unemployment rate is low and (whilst of course we need to export more) we are attracting a huge amount of inward investment into Britain.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.economist.com

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• We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.

  Julian Castro

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

  Bill Maher

  People, Scary, Experts

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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

  Greek, President, Unemployment

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• The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Mean, White

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• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Cliff Stearns

  Home, College, Income

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• The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

  William Weld

  Unemployment, Rate, Stills

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