Action Quote by Janet Yellen

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

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

— George W. Bush

There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That…

— Henry Ford

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

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

— 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

The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it…

— Milton Friedman

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

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

— Raj Chetty

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

“Unemployment benefits are cut off to the long term unemployed in the USA!”

— Steven Magee

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into…

— Jim DeMint