Quotes About Employment

We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes that angry electorates want.

If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security.

There are always people looking for extra income.

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

When you increase the cost of energy, jobs go elsewhere.

I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.

I will be the government of increasing economic growth and creating jobs. Take it from me that that's the main issue.

I just feel incredibly lucky to be employed when there are so many actors and actresses who are not employed. That's why, you know, I sometimes feel desperate, in case I'm not going to be cast again.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

I think the Fight for 15 is a great fight. I think, unfortunately, depending how the Congress works out, we may have to get there in increments.

Many savers are also homeowners; indeed, a family's home may be its most important financial asset. Many savers are working, or would like to be.

Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.

Jobs give people a sense of independence, security and self-confidence.

If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

CSR sustains that companies should see to their personnel healthcare.

A college degree today is the equivalent of a high school degree 50 years ago. We need tuition-free public colleges.

Maybe it's a radical idea, but I believe a job should lift workers out of poverty -- not keep them in it.

we never get around to discussing the reality that, after adjusting for inflation, the average worker in America is making $44 a week less today than she made fifty years ago.

what has not changed is the sense of empowerment that grows when working people are treated not as "employees," but as "owners" who share responsibility for defining the scope and character of their jobs.

if we are serious about creating a truly free society, we must take the next step forward and guarantee every man, woman, and child in our country basic economic rights—the right to quality health care, the right to good education, the right to decent and affordable housing, the right to a secure retirement, and the right to live in a clean environment. And the right to a secure, well-paying, and meaningful job.

if a man doesn't have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists.