“In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.” YearsHas BeensTwoJobsPastSituationMillionsEffectsTaxesRateReliefTwo YearsSoarRevenueDeficitOver The Past Author:Randy Neugebauer
“I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensDoneJobsCoursesEffectsStrangeCapitalistEngineeringEngineers Author:George Saunders
“It is necessary to learn how to do a systems analysis of your life, to learn about the effects of places, people, jobs. There are millions of things that go into the study of meditation.” PeopleJobsMillionsStudyMeditationEffectsBuddhismMindfulnessAnalysisSystems Analysis Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.” IfsWayTwoGovernmentActionWantedSchoolJobsEnergyTermSimplePayCompanyMillionsEffectsBuildingCollegeDebtSavingBest ThingsGuaranteesHospitalsMuseumsInfrastructureDeficitLoanUtilitySavingsContractor Author:William J. Clinton
“When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.” WellsJobsLawTurnsCan DoResultsTalkingEffectsWork OutFlatsGoing To WorkTireInvokeFlat Tires Book:The Power of Positive Thinking Source: The Power of Positive Thinking
“People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government.” PeopleKnowsProblemGovernmentJobsLosesFailingEffectsSourceProgramVoteInvisibleVisibleDiscontentGovernment ProgramsBenefactors Author:Milton Friedman
“When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world... There is a stimulative and ripple effect that kicks in when women have greater access to jobs and the economic lives of our countries: Greater political stability. Fewer military conflicts. More food. More educational opportunity for children... By harnessing the economic potential of all women, we boost opportunity for all people.” PeopleWorldChildrenCountryJobsPoliticalOpportunityNationsWomenCommunityGreaterEconomicEffectsMilitaryConflictEconomicsPerformancesEducationalAccessOur CountryKicksStabilityFewerWomens RightsMen WomenRippleBoostRipple Effect Author:Hillary Clinton
“Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.” JobsYoungStuffInfluenceEffectsYoung Writers Author:George Saunders