Quotes About Unemployment

And yet the economy insisted on a minimum of five percent unemployment, to create the proper "wage pressure." Millions of people who wanted jobs went unhired and therefore couldn't afford a home, therefore suffered from "food insecurity," so that businesses could keep wages low. These people.

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world's youth (87%) living in developing countries "are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions," according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United

THE NEED FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP Youth unemployment has become an urgent challenge facing the global society. In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide. The majority of the world's youth (87%) living in developing countries "are often underemployed and working in the informal economy under poor conditions," according to the 2012 The World Youth Report of the United Nations (United

Notwithstanding the danger of mass unemployment, what we should worry about even more is the shift in authority from humans to algorithms, which might destroy any remaining faith in the liberal story and open the way to the rise of digital dictatorships.

The most important question in twenty-first-century economics may well be what to do with all the superfluous people.

What do you do when nobody needs your cheap unskilled laborers and you don't have the resources to build a good education system and teach them new skills?

We might actually get the worst of both worlds, suffering simultaneously from high unemployment and a shortage of skilled labor.

The technological revolution might soon push billions of humans out of the job market and create a massive new "useless class," leading to social and political upheavals that no existing ideology knows how to handle.

Consequently, despite the appearance of many new human jobs, we might nevertheless witness the rise of a new useless class. We might actually get the worst of both worlds, suffering simultaneously from high unemployment and a shortage of skilled labor. Many people might share the fate not of nineteenth-century wagon drivers, who switched to driving taxis, but of nineteenth-century horses, who were increasingly pushed out of the job market altogether.15

A revolução tecnológica pode, em breve, deixar milhões de seres humanos fora do mercado de trabalho e criar uma gigantesca classe social inútil, levando a convulsões sociais e políticas que nenhuma ideologia existente sabe como gerir.

In the twenty-first century we might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14 000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job.

We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.

The despair brought by unemployment comes not only from the threat of destitution, but from the sudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The unemployed are more likely to follow the peddlers of hope than the handers-out of relief.

The big question about the American depression is not whether war with Germany and Japan ended it. It is why the Depression lasted until that war. From 1929 to 1940, from Hoover to Roosevelt, government intervention helped to make the Depression Great.

I'm just saying—your work ethic, your ability, we could pay you union wages and health and dental, plus workman's comp." He grinned then, showing even teeth. "You get unemployment in porn?" Bobby chuckled. "You do. Never know when you're gonna break your wiener, right?

justified the hyperbole. With the ongoing "war" approaching the ten-year mark, the U.S. economy shed a total of 7.9 million jobs in just three years.3 For only the second time since World War II, the official unemployment rate topped 10 percent. The

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

Before 'Grease,' John Travolta was a big star from 'Welcome Back Kotter'... but that's not where I met him. I met him at unemployment when we first moved to California.