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“Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.”

Knows May Jobs Members Paid Welfare Unemployment Shaking Family Members Dependency Handouts

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.”

Jobs Cutting Unemployment Wages

Book:The Best of Simple

Source: The Best of Simple

“Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.”

Causes Explanation Unemployment Temperature Exhausting Headache

Author:William Beveridge

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

Shock Unemployment Pathology

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.”

Writing Two Would Be Lines Thirds Institutions Checks Novelists Unemployment Adultery

Author:Peter S. Prescott

“A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.”

Men Use Work Poor Return Civilization Labor Tasks Unemployment Urgent Hereafter Poor Man Squandering

Book:In Darkest England, and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England, and the Way Out

“Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.”

People Doe States Influence Unhappy Unemployment Instability Working Life

Author:Polly Toynbee

“It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.”

Two Growth Half Percent Stable Unemployment

Author:Ben Bernanke

“We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.”

Millions Economy Gone Rate Forests Unemployment Acres Unemployment Rate Northwestern

Author:Bruce Babbitt

“Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.”

Way Government America Policy Taxes Entrepreneur Rate Reform Relief Unemployment Unemployment Rate

Author:Marsha Blackburn

“Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.”

Kind Country Running Jobs Poverty Higher Rate Our Country Receiving Composition Unemployment Salary Unemployment Rate

Author:Laura Chinchilla

“You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Kind Done America Levels Attention Groups Labor Congress Debate All Kinds Department Unemployment Great Times

Author:Emanuel Cleaver

“I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.”

Thinking Actors Opportunity Unemployment

Author:Rosemarie DeWitt

“I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.”

Firsts Believe Home Bigs Break Months Periods Lessons Nine Dry Unemployment Nine Months

Author:Natalie Dormer

“The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.”

Depth Unemployment Great Depression Picnics

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.”

Long Enough Whole Force Term Danger Capacity Tragedy Significant Long Term Productive Labour Portions Unfortunate Unemployment 1930s

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.”

Two Reason Government President Results Effort Millions Workers Memoir Unemployment Avoided 1930s Hoover

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.”

People Jobs Easier Benefits Generous Unemployment Incentives

Author:John Ensign

“Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.”

Needs Jobs Young Suffering Opportunity University Population Iran Unemployment Job Opportunities

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.”

Humanity Challenges Business Progress Periods Civilization Claims Cycles Unemployment

Author:Samuel Gompers

“Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.”

World Trying Politics Social Revolution Politician News Presses Panic Unemployment Crooked Unrest Queues Social Unrest Crooked Politicians

Author:Ray Davies

“I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.”

Unemployment Educator

Author:David Caruso

“This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.”

Needs Firsts Different Facts Fall Grows Goal Growing Up Generations Achieve Fine Down And Unemployment Cult Falling Down Ethos Achieving Your Goals

Author:Jane Campion

“Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.”

Shows Jobs Lying Fall Enjoy Numbers Economy Growing Economic Creation Lows All Time Data Gas Unemployment Right Direction Robust Don't Lie Job Creation Gas Prices I Don't Lie

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year.”

Years Two Reason Jobs Lasts Millions Economy Taxes Lows Posts Relief Last Year Pulling Unemployment Packages Recessions

Author:J. D. Hayworth

“No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

Matter Challenges Issues Economic Middle Emotional Spring Happenings No Matter What Rate Critical East Middle East Palestinian Unemployment Israeli Arab Spring

Author:Abdallah II

“What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.”

Night Poverty Unemployment

Author:Abdallah II

“The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.”

People World Doe Jobs Political Middle Youth Highest East Hungry Frustration Regions Spheres Middle East Translate Unemployment Percentages

Author:Abdallah II

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