“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.” ChildrenCareFallBenefitsAreasProgramSafetyUnemploymentAssistanceSafety NetFoster CareChild CareUnemployment Benefits Author:Richard Neal
“All of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment. It has come from figuring out how to produce more goods with fewer workers, thereby releasing labor to be more productive in other areas. It has never come about through permanent unemployment, but temporary unemployment, in the process of shifting people from one area to another.” PeopleMadeLastsProcessProgressCenturyProduceCoupleAreasEconomicsLaborWorkersPermanentProductiveGoodsTemporaryFewerUnemploymentShifting Author:Milton Friedman
“The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.” PeopleKindClassDrinkAreasEducatedIsolatedWorking ClassUnemploymentSwedenSociable Author:Asa Larsson
“Some countries need extra stimulus in specific areas. Something has to be done against high youth unemployment in Greece and Spain, for example. But in the end, there is no way around it: The debt levels have to come down.” WayNeedsEndsCountryDoneLevelsExampleYouthAreasDebtExtrasUnemploymentSpainGreeceStimulus Author:Dalia Grybauskaite
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.” StatesCoursesLeftSocialDealsLeaderSecurityPolicyColorKeysCitizensStandardsAreasFairsLaborUnionsDemocratWorkersProtectionActivismImmigrationWelfareRacistVotersSouthernEntitledUnemploymentEasternSocial SecurityQualifiedCompensationRestrictionLeft OutWelfare StateNew DealDraconian Author:David Roediger
“Our people are dying, poverty and unemployment are on the rise, but the rest of the world says that Musharraf is needed because [only] he can stop nuclear proliferation, [only] he [can launch] an operation in the tribal areas. So he manipulates and dangles some kind of carrot in front of the world all the time. This is not good for the people [of Pakistan], and I think the world has got it all wrong.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindPovertyDyingFrontsNeededAreasNuclearOperationsUnemploymentPakistanManipulateCarrotsProliferationNuclear ProliferationMusharraf Author:Benazir Bhutto
“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.” MenShouldBelieveLawPoliticalCoursesPoliticsSocialCan DoPartyNumbersGroupsSecurityStupidPoliticianAreasProgramLaborOilTinyTexasFarmsUnemploymentPolitical PartiesSocial SecurityOccasionalMillionaireAbolishBelieve You CanBusiness ManSplintersPolitical HistorySocial ProgramsLabor Laws Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.” HumansProblemSituationPovertyGreaterDesignAreasStructureStatisticsUnemploymentMontreal Author:Kim Campbell