1930s Quote by Barry Eichengreen

This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this…

— Anonymous

The longer workers are unemployed, the greater the likelihood that their skills will erode and workers will lose attachment to the labor force, permanently…

— Jerome Powell

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment…

— Ben Bernanke

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

— Janet Yellen

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

— Jan C. Ting

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

— Noam Chomsky

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

— Doug Stanhope

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

— Robert Farrar Capon

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

— Samuel Gompers

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of…

— Nina Easton