Attractive Quote by Paul Krugman

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

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

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

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

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in…

— Ben Bernanke

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

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

— Edward Heath

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

— Ludwig von Mises

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

In a fair society, the solution to unemployment is not to force people into workfare programmes which do little more than supply big companies…

— Caroline Lucas

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

— Jerry Costello