Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“One of the main differences between a slave and an employee is that the employee sold themselves.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English… — Tim Roth Copy Share Image
The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years… The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Every actor knows what unemployment is like, and knows what long periods of unemployment are like, unless you're spectacularly lucky. — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
“My first bit of advice is to not personalize a job loss. The cause for the dismissal was a business calculation. This… — John-Talmage Mathis Copy Share Image
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about… — Hamish Linklater Copy Share Image
“I knew I should have been looking for a job, but just having lost one, I felt kind of unmotivated. Depressed. Useless.… — Craig R. Key Copy Share Image
While labour market reports scream with dramatic youth unemployment data, hundreds of employers cry out for employees with the right skills sets.… — Alain Dehaze Copy Share Image
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Beyond the queues, the vacancy screens listed jobs in a multitude of languages. Invariably, they were low-paid and short-term dead-ends. Nearby, people… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
What we need to do together is to put in place the kind of - foster the kind of environment where businesses… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
“The majority of my generation decides to move back in with their parents after college. Unemployment, for them, is twice the national… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the… — Gabor Mate Copy Share Image
The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
“To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard. — William O'Neill Copy Share Image
As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
“The horror of unemployment is the final undoing of the worker. When he sees this confronting him he sells himself regardless of… — Art Young Copy Share Image
If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of… — Marsha Blackburn Copy Share Image
President Obama announced this week that he is going to start sending out his own messages personally on Twitter. And today Anthony… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Are you better off than you were four years ago? One of my favorite quotes Is it easier for you to go… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government… — Tim Pawlenty Copy Share Image