Bad news Quote by Harry Reid

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but…

— Anonymous

You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact…

— Tom DeLay

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…

— Sharron Angle

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

— Raj Chetty

People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a…

— Paul Krugman

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

— Jan C. Ting

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to…

— John Ensign

Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of…

— Paul Krugman

With unemployment benefits, you don't get health care. You don't build your pension up. You don't build all of those programs that you need…

— Marty Walsh

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

— Ludwig von Mises

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been…

— Scott Walker

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