Consequence Quote by William Julius Wilson

The lack of work destroys people.

— Katharine Hepburn

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the…

— Bob Hawke

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and…

— Jerry Costello

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

— Angus Deaton

“Housework, handicrafts, subsistence agriculture, radical technology, learning exchanges, and the like are degraded into activities for the idle, the unproductive, the very poor, or…

— Ivan Illich

There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is…

— Emile Durkheim

Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

— Leo Tolstoy

There can be little doubt that absence from work, and inefficient work, are frequently due to intemperance.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

In some of the estates, there are generations of people who have been without work, so the environment and the example passed down generations…

— Michael Portillo

Crime takes root when household budgets are unable to address the conditions that can lead to despair and violence, and government services and policies…

— Eric Adams

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States…

— Alex Berenson

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen