#unemployment

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

— Orson Scott Card

#capitalism #garden #getting #plant #unemployment

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid. ↗

— John Cornyn

#fact #harry #harry reid #home #like

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#depression #economy #government #great #great depression

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

— James Meade

#evils #great #mass #threat #two

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#unemployment #vacation

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#businesses #down #extent #go #going

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. ↗

— William Weld

#high #rate #still #twice #unemployment

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this. ↗

— Michael York

#being #face #feeling #fulfilled #game

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row. ↗

— Danny Glover

#african americans #bad #bad times #black #country

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#continue #countries #decades #down #euro