Quotes About Unemployment

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

The criminal profile of corpse-eaters was surprising. Only 2 percent had a previous criminal record. They were primarily women, uneducated females with no employment and no local Leningrad address. They were, in other words, often refugees who had fled to the city and who therefore did not have ration books at all. They had to make a choice between eating those already dead or dying themselves.

Afterwards they walked east along Fourteenth. "Dutch cant we go to your room?" "I ain't got no room. The old stiff wont let me stay and she's got all my stuff. Honest if I dont get a job this week I'm goin to a recruiting sergeant an re-enlist.

Samantha closed her eyes for a few seconds and tried to put it all in perspective. Yesterday morning she had arrived at her desk in the world's largest law firm, one that paid her handsomely and had the promise of a long, profitable career. Now, about thirty hours later, she was unemployed, sitting in the café at Kramerbooks and trying to hustle her way into a temporary, unpaid gig about as deep in the boonies as one could possibly wander.

After becoming president in 1933, however, this Roosevelt did insist on putting America first. With its banks collapsing, a fourth of its workforce unemployed, and its self-confidence badly shaken, recovery took precedence over everything else.

A still more extreme market malfunction occurs if the costs of transacting are so high as to swamp any potential benefits from the deal. Transaction costs can thwart exchanges that would otherwise be worthwhile. Unemployment exists, for example, not simply because there are too few jobs, but also because transaction costs in the labor market prevent some employers and job seekers from connecting with each other. A new way of doing business that lowers transaction costs can benefit everyone.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

[People] have no jobs, they have horrible education, they have no safety or security, and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose?

One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.

The protecting state prioritized the protection of speculators and fraudsters over the needs of citizens who had been hit by the crisis and unemployment.

These factors include things like the unemployment rate, interest rates, the dollar's strength in the currency market, petroleum prices, and consumers' disposable income. Those

You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else. When they can me here I wisht somebody'd shoot me. But they won't do nothing like that. I won't have no place to go, an' I can't get no more jobs.

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

One of the things that worry business men is the number of unemployed on the payroll.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.