I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The unemployment rate rose between 1968 and 1970 from 3.6 to 4.9 percent—a jump of more than 33 percent. The consumer price… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
What's really clear to all of us in the business community is that GDP is slowing everywhere. And the reason is productivity… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why can't unemployed people clean toilets, remove graffiti from vandalised war memorials, clear wasteland or derelict areas, or even decorate public buildings… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Eric, you need to look at the whole picture," the PM said. "You look at the jobless as a huge pile of… — Mark Cantrell Copy Share Image
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
If you have a sane economy, and by sane economy I mean one which is not addicted to debt, not a Ponzi… — Steve Keen Copy Share Image
If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - I'm… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a belief... in the country that we can cure unemployment by creating opportunity. The skills gap proves that opportunity along is… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
under a monopolistic economic system the opportunity to earn a living by one's labour comes to be regarded as a privilege instead… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“A ‘discouraged worker’ is someone of legal employment age who has stopped actively seeking employment because he or she has simply given… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great,… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I,… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well ,we blame them for having power and being oppressors.… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been… — John Hume Copy Share Image
You see the unemployment rate is at a very, very low level. Job enthusiasm and manufacturing, business enthusiasm is at record levels;… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the '80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty,… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're… — Gerald McRaney Copy Share Image
A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to… — William Booth Copy Share Image
“Unemployment is not the end of your life. It is the beginning of a bright future. “For I know the thoughts that… — Charleen Goombs Copy Share Image
I had to move back to my moms and start collecting unemployment benefit because I had spent all my child actor money,… — Fergie Copy Share Image
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
“Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order… — Michael Francis Moore Copy Share Image
The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
You talk to any of the job creators, and they'll tell you one of the things that concerns them the most is… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
