Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going… — Daphne Koller Copy Share Image
Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Our whole economy and society is already being changed by the fact that we have increasing unemployment, mass unemployment and that's what… — Gemma Chan Copy Share Image
Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked. — Campbell Newman Copy Share Image
My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam.… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph… — Herbert Hoover 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
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment. — Betty Williams 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
The interest rate because of Mr. Raghuram Rajan has been too high, and so medium and small industries have all collapsed. This… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment? — Doug Stanhope 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
If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy… — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
“-the bank recently introduced a new system that automated many tasks in my role as a risk analyst and therefore my position… — K.A. Tucker Copy Share Image