Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively…

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…

— James Surowiecki

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment…

— Ben Bernanke

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a…

— Barry Eichengreen

Policy makers should be compelled to take action given the serious costs of long-term unemployment when overall unemployment is already high. A week of…

— Janet Yellen

If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go, but for…

— Kevin Hassett

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

— Doug Stanhope

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,…

— Marsha Blackburn

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel…

— Stephen Harper

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love,…

— Jesse Jackson

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

— Hans Kung

I am not alone in that I've had times of unemployment - unemployment is huge amongst disabled people.

— Rosie Jones

“hat are the effects of increasing minimum wages?” asks Paul Krugman. “Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces…

— Don Watkins

I've never believed unemployment numbers because the way that they calculate unemployment makes no sense whatsoever. It's not how many people are unemployed. It's…

— Suze Orman

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

— Francois Hollande

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs