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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

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

— Henry Ford

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as…

— James Surowiecki

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

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at…

— Michael Bloomberg

The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment

— Immanuel Wallerstein

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

All too often unemployment is used as an excuse for misbehaving when jobs are available within walking distance.

— James Cook

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their…

— Barack Obama

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

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed…

— Dale Spender

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

— Janet Yellen