Quotes About Unemployment

I buried my baby brother this year because of the opioid crisis, I've seen my friends and family, strong miners born and bred in these hills out of work, and people crying out for help.

President Obama keeps telling us that he is "creating jobs." But more and more Americans have no jobs. The unemployment rate has declined slightly, but only because many people have stopped looking for jobs. You are only counted as unemployed if you are still looking for a job.

In Hawaii, the most generous state, an unemployed single mother with two children has been eligible for welfare benefits worth more than $49,000 a year.

Definitions being what they are, young people who waste their time around the house or on street corners are called "unemployed," while those who waste their time in classrooms are called "students.

in January 2004, the number of unemployed American college graduates actually exceeded the number of unemployed high school dropouts.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

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

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

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

All unemployed Jews are sent to labour camps in the countryside. A survivor remembered that "It was like a Russian winter. The snow lay metres deep on the tracks and froze over. To be there made one feel as though one was overwintering in Nova Zemlya."27

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

He had recently graduated with a degree in English Literature and was on the dole. So were most of his fellow graduates.

All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment