#unemployment

Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. ↗

— Ric Keller

#better #created #economy #growing #jobs

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#defeat #economic #economic problems #election #factor

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. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#destruction #here #home #homelessness #mass

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ↗

— Hans Kung

#destruction #families #human #human beings #hundreds

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#affecting #crisis #delicate #developed #established

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#competition #i #illiteracy #poverty #unemployment

Any degree of unemployment worries me. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#degree #me #unemployment #worries

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