Quotes About Joblessness

I hate to see capable, smart people out of work - young or old.

It was the Depression because no white and no blacks were working. The whites not working made it official.

I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't have a job, the harder it is to get a new job. You know, the reality is that if you're out of job, and you're looking for a job, then the new employer's going to say, 'Well, why, you know, don't you have a job now? What's wrong with you?'

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.

You mean, business is slowing down?" She nodded. "Lots of my friends are out of a job now. People aren't working like they used to, and they don't want secretaries

Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in the United States and many states in Europe during a new age of mounting scarcity, declining wages, joblessness, government-imposed "austerity" measures, and assaults on civil liberties. The rising living standards experienced by the American working class in the 1950s have been in precipitous decline since the 1970s.

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

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

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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

Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance.

The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.

opioids or unemployment or deindustrialization.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

despair hovered over the land like a plague. They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. They had learned to accept a future that played out one day

The best way to overcome joblessness is to create a social contract between the public and private sectors to provide decent jobs for the unemployed. The decaying infrastructure of our cities is in urgent need of repair and restoration.

America should do more to fix the still-festering housing crisis and overhaul its training schemes so that high joblessness does not become entrenched. Hunkering down for austerity is not enough. The rich world needs a strategy for growth.

Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you

Joblessness makes you live without the fear of being fired