Concerned Quote by Robert Reich

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

A robust, sustainably funded unemployment insurance system is Connecticut's most important tool for keeping our families out of poverty and our economy in motion…

— Ned Lamont

You ask, "Could we have an honest discussion about earnings insurance?" I think we could, if people understood that the alternative was to build…

— Robert Reich

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

— Anonymous

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

— Timothy Noah

We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective…

— Grace Napolitano

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

— Katherine Dunn

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because…

— Michele Bachmann

“a basic income is arguably more justified by the need for economic security than by a desire to eradicate poverty. Martin Luther King captured…

— Guy Standing

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

— Jan C. Ting

In the old 20th-century income distribution system, the shares of income going to capital, mainly in profits, and labor, in wages and non-wage benefits,…

— Guy Standing

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