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

Quotes by William Weld

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

Quotes by William Vickrey

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

Quotes by William Vickrey

Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

Quotes by William Vickrey

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

Quotes by William Vickrey

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.

Quotes by Tim Griffin

Major drivers of global unemployment are lack of job creation and skills shortage or mismatch.

Quotes by Tae Yoo

The interest rate because of Mr. Raghuram Rajan has been too high, and so medium and small industries have all collapsed. This has led to increased unemployment.

Quotes by Subramanian Swamy

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

Quotes by Stewart Brand

The unemployment rate is not real.

Quotes by Steve Mnuchin

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

Quotes by Steve Hanke

With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.

Quotes by Steve Hilton

Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.

Quotes by Stef Wertheimer

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

Quotes by Shirin Ebadi

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

Quotes by Sharron Angle

No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment.

Quotes by Sharan Burrow

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

Quotes by Ron Paul

Trade is not the cause for unemployment. In fact, the biggest drivers for unemployment are innovation and increased productivity. It has nothing to do with trade.

Quotes by Roberto Azevedo

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

Quotes by Robert Farrar Capon

It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.

Quotes by Richard M. Daley

There is a sense of shame that comes with unemployment. I didn't become a movie star, and I was a size 14.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

Quotes by Peter Maurer

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

Quotes by Pete Sessions

What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

Quotes by Pam Bondi

In the 1980s, the trade unions suffered a series of calamitous setbacks. Mass unemployment terrified workers into not risking the wrath of bosses. Repressive anti-union laws stunted the ability of workers to organise and defend their rights.

Quotes by Owen Jones

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.

Quotes by Nigel Farage

The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.

Quotes by Moshe Katsav

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

Quotes by Mike Lowry

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

Quotes by Martha Quinn

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

Quotes by Marsha Blackburn

Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.

Quotes by Marine Le Pen

I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.

Quotes by Maggie Hassan

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

Quotes by Luke Ford

We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

Lal Bahadur Shastri

In 2012, I helped lead the successful effort in Congress to allow states to conduct drug testing of people receiving unemployment benefits.

Quotes by Kevin Brady

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

Quotes by Katherine Dunn

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Quotes by Julian Bond

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Quotes by Jonathan Davis

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.

Quotes by John Hume

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

Quotes by John Hume

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

Quotes by Joe Lonsdale

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

Quotes by Janet Yellen

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

Quotes by James Meade

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

Quotes by James Meade

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

Quotes by Jack Lew

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

Quotes by Indra Nooyi

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Quotes by Hans Kung

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

Quotes by Glynis Johns

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

Quotes by Gerhard Schroder

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

Quotes by Franklin Raines

For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

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

Quotes by Evo Morales

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Quotes by Edward Heath

Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than among the most-skilled workers.

Quotes by Edward Conard

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Quotes by Edmund Phelps

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

Quotes by Eamon de Valera

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

Quotes by Dick Van Patten

Before 'Grease,' John Travolta was a big star from 'Welcome Back Kotter'... but that's not where I met him. I met him at unemployment when we first moved to California.

Quotes by Didi Conn

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

Quotes by Diane Ladd

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Quotes by Denzel Washington

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

Quotes by Dennis Kucinich

I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.

Quotes by David Horsey

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Quotes by David Caruso

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.

Quotes by Dale T. Mortensen

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Quotes by Constance Marie

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

Quotes by Cliff Stearns

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

Quotes by Chuck Schumer

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

Quotes by Carl Hiaasen

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

Quotes by Campbell Newman

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

Quotes by Calvin Coolidge

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Quotes by Bruce Babbitt

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

Quotes by Brian Sandoval

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

Quotes by Brian Sandoval

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.

Quotes by Bob McDonnell

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

Quotes by Ben Bernanke

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Quotes by Angela Merkel

Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the state was a center for home foreclosures.

Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent.

Quotes by Alex Berenson

When you affect consumption, production falls, and when production falls, employment falls and when unemployment rises, it affects poverty.

Quotes by Alberto Fernandez

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

Quotes by Alan Nunnelee

I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.

Quotes by Alan Furst

The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.

Quotes by Alain Dehaze

One of the causes of the Arab Spring was high unemployment.

Quotes by Alain Dehaze

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

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