Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Heath

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Brian Sandoval

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

Annie Lennox

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.

David Caruso

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Ludwig von Mises

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

Ludwig von Mises

Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

Jimmy Carter

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

Franklin Raines

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

Frank Zappa

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

Evo Morales

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Milton Friedman

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough.

Paul Krugman

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Margaret Thatcher

There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.

Glynis Johns

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

Nick Hanauer

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Martha Quinn

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment.

Michael Foot

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

Mike Lowry

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

William Weld

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

William Randolph Hearst

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.

William J. Brennan

It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

Robert Farrar Capon

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

Ron Paul

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.