Collecting Quote by Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking…

— Chuck Schumer

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

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

One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so would enable…

— Robert H. Frank

Of course there are people who are unable to work and it's right that they are given the support they need. Frustratingly, though, for…

— Damian Green

“The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for a forty-hour…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

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

Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.

— Pierre Poilievre

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

— Katherine Dunn