Anticipate Quote by Noam Chomsky

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a…

— Barry Eichengreen

The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

— William O'Neill

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By…

— Noam Chomsky

Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated…

— Barry Eichengreen

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

— Calvin Coolidge

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

— Calvin Coolidge

There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had…

— Janet Yellen

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of…

— Nina Easton

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy…

— Barbara Castle

“Less apparent at the time, but in many ways more problematic, were deep-seated structural developments in the work force. By the late 1960s millions…

— James T. Patterson

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there…

— Daymond John

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.

— Kevin Hassett