Unemployment Benefits Quotes
- 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… — Paul Krugman
- 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… — Paul Krugman
- It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. — Raj Chetty
- Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program — Nancy Pelosi
- The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits. — Philip Larkin
- Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's… — Arthur Laffer
- You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there… — Tom DeLay
- More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they… — Richard Neal
- In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs… — Fareed Zakaria
- Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits. — Alan Nunnelee
- More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able… — Scott Walker
- They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay… — Sharron Angle