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Quotes About Employment

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.
~ Rand Paul
I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.
~ Jason Calacanis
In the industrial world we have the problem of having more productive capacity than we know what to do with. That's at the root of the unemployment crisis: we've got so productive at making things, we don't require people to be involved in making the basics of life any more. Or nearly as many people.
~ Eric Ries
If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.
~ Jeremy Grantham
I think, you know, when you're an actor who's had periods of unemployment, it makes you feel really good to have a job - to say that you're expected somewhere, do you know what I mean?
~ Gillian Jacobs
In American history, it's about hard work and self-reliance. It's not about collecting giveaways or being on unemployment forever. That the economy moves ahead for people who are going to work to realize the American dream, own a home, send your kids to college. I think it's the founding cornerstone of America.
~ Ryan Zinke
It's just as easy for me to be building a fence somewhere and scraping by on unemployment in between doing a guest star spot. I've been there.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
You won't be exiled to permanent unemployment just because there's a picture somewhere of you holding a red Solo cup and looking underage. But, your Google results tell a story: Have you been in the news? Authored articles or blog posts? What types of topics do you frequently tweet about?
~ Kathryn Minshew
I was in the U.K. and Germany and went to Volkswagen and learned about their apprenticeship model - young people become paid apprentices in trades. It's not a coincidence that youth unemployment is far lower in Germany than the United States because there are paid opportunities for young people to get experience.
~ Tom Perez
I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm.
~ Holly Hunter
I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year.
~ Holly Hunter
Providing individuals with multiple pathways and resources to find work or foster ideas that both create jobs and address social challenges can have significant impact. Ultimately, this helps address the unemployment challenge.
~ Tae Yoo
I moved right to L.A., and I had a year of active unemployment. I had 50-something auditions for 50-something different projects, testing and doing callbacks, and could not get hired. And then, almost a year to the day of being out in L.A., I booked my first job, and then I started booking something every other month.
~ Shalita Grant
Rising fuel prices, growing agrarian distress, and unemployment are the three major issues to dominate the 2019 general elections.
~ Naveen Patnaik
With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.
~ Steve Hilton
To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.
~ David Lammy
The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.
~ Eugene Scalia
Because standard unemployment reports continue to exclude prisoners, we have been treated to a highly misleading picture of black unemployment.
~ Michelle Alexander
In this country, nobody should be talking about unemployment, as there is so much to be done in India.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Setting an immigration target reduced to the tens of thousands is one thing when unemployment is running at 8 per cent. Refusing to review it when the country nears full employment and sectors are reporting skills shortages is quite another.
~ Sajid Javid
As the MP for an area like Tottenham you quickly learn that the factors leading to unemployment are as numerous as they are diverse.
~ David Lammy
I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.
~ Tom Perez
You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.
~ Austan Goolsbee
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.
~ Sharron Angle