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Unemployment Quotes by Paul Krugman
- People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job…
- Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising…
- Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the…
- It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run on aggregate demand…
- So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of…
- If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will…
- On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just…
More Unemployment Quotes
- Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment… — Michele Bachmann
- In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent,… — Joe Biden
- Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs… — Michael Bloomberg
- Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity… — Derek Bok
- As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. — Julian Bond
- Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as… — Kim Campbell
- For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It… — Kim Campbell
- Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. — Orson Scott Card
- If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to… — Dick Cheney
- You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest… — Sharron Angle
- 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
- 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