The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions… — Steve Hanke 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
If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the… — Phil Mickelson Copy Share Image
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society… — Barry Eichengreen Copy Share Image
Setting an immigration target reduced to the tens of thousands is one thing when unemployment is running at 8 per cent. Refusing… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“A civilization in which frequent unemployment on the part of a multitude of men, able and willing to work, is a normal… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that most people don’t use more than a pea size equivalent of their brain. They can’t process more than… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going… — Abdallah II Copy Share Image
In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for 12 years,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
In a world dependent on international trade and commerce, and staggering under a heavy load of international debt, no policy is more… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When a company wants to move to Mexico or another company - or another country and they want to build a nice,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The fact is in a city like Chicago, for example, unemployment in the black community is around 20 percent for adults, 35… — Jesse Jackson 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
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they… — Marc Andreessen 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
I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the… — Michael York Copy Share Image
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
I never had a doubt about wanting to be an actress, but certainly when there were periods of unemployment, I would think,… — Jessica Walter Copy Share Image
In working on any one problem, such as higher minimum wages, so many other issues come into play, such as some businesses… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“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,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive… — SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A Copy Share Image
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they… — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one… — Jo Ann Emerson Copy Share Image
I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image