Important Quote by Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Unemployment insurance was meant to be a bridge for temporary spells of unemployment. The bad news is all the evidence is that the longer…

— Harry Reid

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

— Bryan Caplan

I'm not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing fingers, but I am interested in trying to figure out how we…

— Hillary Clinton

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what…

— Steve Hanke

Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important…

— Sander Levin

If you want to improve the Affordable Care Act, let's work together. But if you think you're simply going to throw millions off of…

— Rachel Martin

This Congress needs to restore the unemployment insurance you just let expire for 1.6 million people.

— Barack Obama

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

— Edward Heath

Policy makers should be compelled to take action given the serious costs of long-term unemployment when overall unemployment is already high. A week of…

— Janet Yellen

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's…

— Jeremy Grantham

Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance. It's gotten…

— Jay Leno

I support the Affordable Care Act and believe we should take steps to further expand coverage and reduce costs.

— Bill Foster