#workers

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#behind #colleges #community #created #displaced

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#america #approximately #billion #born #combined

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#fixed #future #had #make #our

A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#big #creates #creative #deliver #delivers

I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#areas #bounce #choices #co-workers #etc

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#initiative #leaders #positions #simply #without

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy. ↗

— Kit Bond

#cannot #century #companies #compete #economy

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#life

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#creative #impulsive #less #mature #more

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work. ↗

— Angela Davis

#bring #first #increase #less #paying