It was daunting, giving up a regular job for a freelance…

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

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

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…

— Michelle Obama

Six years in and theres still no evidence Obama even knows what a job is. . .

— Rick Sutter

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in…

— Meg Whitman

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

— P. D. James