Circumstances Quote by Rush Limbaugh

I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in…

— Tom Vilsack

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in…

— Lauren Greenfield

After the 1970s, we accomplished economic development rapidly. But the side effect of that was high stress levels or the gap between the rich…

— Park Won-soon

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

The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to…

— Ross Kemp

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was…

— Barbara Castle

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived.…

— Jimmy Carter

The longer people receive economic assistance, the worse their social condition and behavior.

— James Cook

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people…

— Thomas Sowell

I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the…

— Jules Feiffer

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual…

— Michael Francis Moore