Causes Quote by William Beveridge

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages,…

— Dale T. Mortensen

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

— Henry Ford

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

When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must…

— James Callaghan

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

— Jan C. Ting

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

— Calvin Coolidge

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

— Timothy Spall

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as…

— James Surowiecki

People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a…

— Paul Krugman

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.

— Slappy White

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's…

— John Mellencamp

“Employment is a condition of being. Unemployment is a period of transition. We bravely present ourselves as having value. It's a façade of projected…

— Ronald R. Cooke