#unemployment

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

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

— William Weld

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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

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But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

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I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

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If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

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The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ↗

— Robert Farrar Capon

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Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington. ↗

— Mike Lowry

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More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care. ↗

— Richard Neal

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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked. ↗

— Campbell Newman

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