Unemployment Quotes - Page 6

• Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

  Bob Hope

  Running, Answers, Problem

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• I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Self, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

  Wayne Knight

  Children, School, Kids

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• Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

  William Vickrey

  Mean, Evil, Welfare

  William Spencer Vickrey (2004). “Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey”, Edward Elgar Pub

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• Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck.

  John Boehner

  Struggle, Train Wrecks, Growth

  "Immigration Battle". Film by Shari Robertson, Michael Camerini, www.pbs.org. 2015.

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• I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

  Avey Tare

  Trying, Records, Stores

  "The Strangest Trip: Animal Collective on the Legacy of Animal Collective". Interview with Matthew Schnipper, pitchfork.com. February 8, 2016.

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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, Young

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

  Henry Ford

  America, Want, Unemployed

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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, Problem

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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

  Wisdom, Levels, Poverty

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

  Mike Lowry

  Development, Economic, States

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• I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This is easy." And of course, I have since learned that acting has its periods of unemployment, and ups and downs. The first five years were really good to me.

  David Krumholtz

  Years, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

  Bernard Baruch

  Money, Fall, Wages

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• Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.

  Ben Shapiro

  Believe, Rights, Office

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• Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.

  Randall Robinson

  African American, Salary, Looks

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

  Milton Friedman

  Suggestions, Ends, Trade

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• When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

  Harvey Gantt

  Struggle, Hands, Care

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• The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.

  Annie Lennox

  Kingdoms, Scene, Scales

  "The Look: Annie Lennox". Interview with Harry Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2014.

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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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• If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

  Milton Friedman

  Would Be, Use, Results

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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

  Order, Pay, Conservative

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• Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

  Milton Friedman

  Wages, Investing, Minimum Wage

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• The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.

  Genrich Altshuller

  Brain, World, Endless

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• I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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