Quotes About Joblessness

Joblessness gives you control over the product of your life

Joblessness is an opportunity to fulfill purpose

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.

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

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Joblessness and underemployment among younger people have also changed the family dynamic, making it more difficult for young adults to leave home. For example, Pew Research reports that from 1968 to 2007 the percentage "of young adults living in their parents' home was relatively constant [at about 32 percent]."46 By 2012, 36 percent of those between the ages of eighteen and thirty-one lived in their parents' home.47