#unemployment

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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

#more #more and more #more people #out #people

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

— Luke Ford

#held #i #politics #right-wing #time

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed. ↗

— Edward Heath

#particularly #unemployed #unemployment #vital

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#newsroom #only #unemployment #writer

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#allows #america #binding #compensation #court

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

There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business cycle. … The graduates snicker. A steady job! They’ve never heard of such a thing. ↗

— Max Barry

#jobs #unemployment #business

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. ↗

— Larry Elder

#benefits #causes #companies #consumers #cost