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• Being out of a job can erode people’s confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Unemployment, Possibility

• A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, Uncertainty

• Anything that’s done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that’s done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

  Indra Nooyi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, Massive, Anything

• We are in a bit of a policy box and it’s going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it’s okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, ‘we’re going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.’

  Indra Nooyi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, Spending, Address

• Any degree of unemployment worries me.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, Worries

• If you’ve got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

  Barbara Anne Castle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment

• Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.

  Ted Cruz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, National

• There’s no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It’s soon going to be more than that.

  Stewart Brand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Unemployment

• In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.

  Tim Bishop

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Unemployment

• You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn’t pay as much. And so, that’s what’s happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don’t want the jobs that are available.

  Sharron Angle

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Unemployment

• They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn’t pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

  Sharron Angle

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment

• The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it’s gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

  James Talent

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discouraged, Unemployment

• People aren’t stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it’s 4 _ percent. We’ve got 1/4 million jobs that we’ve created.

  William Weld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Unemployment, Remembering

• I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

  William Vickrey

  Topics in Country, Job

  Tags in Employment, Unemployment

• If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

  William Vickrey

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Unemployment

• Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

  William Vickrey

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, Situation

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

  Edward Heath

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, Importance

• There is no writer’s block in a newsroom. There’s only unemployment block.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment

• When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Unemployment

• When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unemployment, Results, Men