American Quote by Sander Levin

Extending emergency unemployment benefits isn't just the right thing to do for our families - it's the smart thing to do for our economy.

— Tom Perez

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into…

— Jim DeMint

Not only do unemployment benefits help families who are hurting; they also put money into their pockets that they'll then spend - and their…

— 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

In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people not to…

— David Limbaugh

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

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

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

— Alan Nunnelee

“Unemployment benefits are cut off to the long term unemployed in the USA!”

— Steven Magee

This Congress needs to restore the unemployment insurance you just let expire for 1.6 million people.

— Barack Obama

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been…

— Scott Walker

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

— Edward Heath