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
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
During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in… — Tim Walberg Copy Share Image
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend -… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is… — Paul Krugman 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
We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“According to Albert Einstein and Indian Government, Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned; According to me,… — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar Copy Share Image
For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap,… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for… — John Ensign Copy Share Image
They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“In some ways the most striking novelty in Keynesian doctrine was that (abstracting from effects on foreign trade) an all-round reduction in… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
We're always flexible and pragmatic... It's always important to watch the unemployment rate and to make sure that we can keep most… — Jim Flaherty Copy Share Image
If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The plant goes down. The industry is weaker. The price of the commodity has lagged. Any of those things can push people… — Chris Alexander Copy Share Image
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write… — Paul Downs Colaizzo Copy Share Image
It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image