#employment

A brick could help me hold down a job. Hey, in an economy as bad as this, every little bit helps. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick #brick-and-blanket #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #depression

I hired a counterfeiter the other day. I told him, “As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you.” I love a business model where the employee pays the employer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#business-model #cash #counterfeit #counterfeiter #currency

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#congress #critical #efficient #employment #fairly

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#capitalism #garden #getting #plant #unemployment

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

— James Meade

#evils #great #mass #threat #two

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing. ↗

— John Cheever

#delusions #dissatisfaction #fables #indifference #jokes

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#crime #crime rate #decreased #graduating #greater

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#certainly #could #did #discrimination #episodic

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

#because #benefit #benefits #does #extending

My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#efforts #employment #fairly #feet #france