Quotes About Employment

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

I did not want to prance around trees singing and dancing. I had to make a living and for that I started with documentaries for government agencies on subjects such as adult education, child welfare, and so on.

We need welfare reform to get people back to work and provide proper support for those that can't.

This resounding cry of 'welfare to work' enrages me because something like 75% or 80% of people who are on government assistance are already working.

Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment for crucial members of the Democratic base.

What we're putting forward is the most radical reform of the welfare state... for 60 years. I think it will have a transformative effect in making sure that everyone is better off in work and better off working rather than on benefits.

Time spent on hiring is time well spent.

It is well known that men will apply for a job they are half qualified for, but women do not apply unless they meet every requirement. We want to see girls have equal levels of confidence and take the necessary leaps and risks.

The destructive impact of employment tribunal fees, which were introduced in 2013, is by now well known.

Evidence suggests jobs are crucial not only to economic well-being but also to self-esteem.

Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as many different accents as I could manage. I started with one that I didn't think would alert any suspicion - generic Asian - then moved on to Irish, Welsh, Australian and American.

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.

You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'

If all you have is coal, that's the only thing that we have. Don't hate the coal miner for trying to get the only decent job that we have in West Virginia that can allow them to feed their family.

One of the main goals of the Roads to Prosperity program is to bring jobs to West Virginia and spark economic growth.

The coal industry in West Virginia, when it is down, people can't buy cars; people can't eat in restaurants. Everything suffers.

I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the coal mines.

If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia.

My goal is to make tourism an economic driver and bring jobs to West Virginia.