“I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving expert performance and sustaining growth in a way that is more sound and more permanent.” ThinkingWaySoundGrowthGainsLaborPerformancesBasesReformCombinationPermanentImprovingUnemploymentReducingAdjustmentSustaining Author:Lucas Papademos
“It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.” MenWholeJobsGrowthBoysEconomyMen And WomenLaborBiggerAccessPushing Author:Christine Lagarde
“I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.” PeopleWorldHumansLittlesStatesCareTogetherThreeGrowthInterestWealthUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyEnvironmentRightsWeekFairsLaborTradeHuman RightsChinaProtectionSpendingConvincedPursuitRepublicGrandchildrenRelentlessAdvancingInexorableTibetNational InterestsFair TradePursuit Of Wealth Author:Mort Kondracke
“Capital, and the question of who owns it and therefore reaps the benefit of its productiveness, is an extremely important issue that is complementary to the issue of full employment... I see these as twin pillars of our economy: Full employment of our labor resources and widespread ownership of our capital resources. Such twin pillars would go a long way in providing a firm underlying support for future economic growth that would be equitably shared.” WayLongImportantWisdomWould BePoliticsGrowthSupportEconomyIssuesEconomicBenefitsResourcesLaborEmploymentFirmLiberalismProvidingOwnershipTwinsLong WayEconomic GrowthReapPillarsImportant IssuesComplementary Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“Through its prohibition on birth control, the Church has suggested that the only right way to have children is through biological reproduction: a kind of forced labor culminating in the production of another soul for God. What kind of a God stands like Lee Iacocca at the end of an assembly line, driving his workers with a greedy 'More! More!' while the automobiles pile up in showrooms and on freeways and in used-car lots and finally junkyards, his only satisfaction the gross production figures at the end of every quarter?” WayKindChildrenSoulEndsUsedGrowthChurchLinesCarFiguresBirthLaborWorkersSatisfactionProductionsDrivingQuartersRight WayGreedyGrossAutomobileAssemblyProhibitionReproductionBirth ControlFreewaysPopulation GrowthAssembly LineUsed CarJunkyardShowroom Author:Nancy Mairs
“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.” MenActionLyingNightCultureGrowthMorningWiseProgressHe ManFoolVictoryConflictLaborEveningPolishAcquisitionExertionFriction Author:Frederick Douglass
“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.” WorldHelpingActionChoicesGirlIndividualSocialGrowthBoysSupportEnvironmentFieldsAdventureIndustryComfortLaborMotherhoodCirclesWildernessNurtureSocial Action Author:Gerda Lerner
“By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.” WayGrowthNaturalProgressIndustryLowsLaborProductivityImmigrationTechnologicalSubsidiesTechnological Progress Author:Mark Krikorian
“Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. Youre going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.” PeopleShouldKindChildrenSaidEndsEnoughFactsTodayLeftGrowthWaterSituationEconomySourceLaborIndiaBasesDrinkingChiefsCorporateExploitationAccumulationPrescriptionsDrinking WaterCoca ColaChild Labor Author:Vandana Shiva
“The Coalition's message of jobs and growth is resonating very, very strongly in North and Central Queensland and one thing they're particularly fearful of is the possibility of a Green-Labor government, a government in which the Green tail wags the Labor dog.” GovernmentJobsGrowthOne ThingDogPossibilityMessagesLaborGreenFearfulVery StrongTailsCoalitionsQueenslandWagsResonating Author:George Brandis
“We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other Republican ever before, [Donald Trump] is going to focus on trying to tighten the labor market directly through discouraging outsourcing and tightening up on immigration, all towards the goal of actually increasing wages, that's a new focus for the Republican Party and a very important one.” TryingImportantGoalGrowthPartyFocusCuttingConditionsTrumpRepublicanTaxesLaborImmigrationWagesRepublican PartyDiscouragingOutsourcing Author:Rich Lowry
“Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began to change in the industrial age, reaching a peak in 1928, after the forceful destruction of the labor movement and crushing of independent thought. Largely as a result of labor mobilization, inequality declined during the Great Depression, a tendency continuing through the great growth period of regulated capitalism in the early postwar decades.” AgeGrowthCapitalismLaborDestructionIndependentInequalityCrushGreat DepressionIndependent Thought Author:Noam Chomsky
“The issue that's really, really concerning is that you have eight million prime age men who have dropped out of the labor force, folks who aren't even looking for work. You can create job growth all day, but unless you start to do the things that bring those labor force dropouts back into the job market, you're not going to solve the problems.” MenProblemAgeGrowthLabor Author:James Vance