Quotes About Statistics

If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families.

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

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

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

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

This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.

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

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

I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent.

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.

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

Because standard unemployment reports continue to exclude prisoners, we have been treated to a highly misleading picture of black unemployment.

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers about the unemployment rate and so forth.

The unemployment rate is not real.

We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12.