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“Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.”

Helping Jobs Feet Program Down And Faults Get Back Unemployment Stamps Food Stamps Medicaid Laid Off

Author:Hank Johnson

“The final solution for unemployment is work.”

Government Solutions Finals Unemployment

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The reason is that Chile is the brightest spot in Latin America. It has very fast growth, low unemployment. It privatized its Social Security system, which we in USA were unable to do.”

Reason America Social Growth Security Lows Spots Usa Latin Unemployment Social Security Latin America Chile Security Systems

Author:Allan H. Meltzer

“What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.”

Poverty Unemployment Gdp Austerity

Author:Gerald Celente

“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.”

People Kind Class Drink Areas Educated Isolated Working Class Unemployment Sweden Sociable

Author:Asa Larsson

“Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.”

War Poverty Hell Crime Disease Solve Unemployment Herpes

Book:World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.”

People World Stills Hard Jobs Numbers Skills Hard Times Unemployment Employers Large Numbers Identifying Having A Hard Time

Author:Daphne Koller

“As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

“The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.”

People Enough Rate Scary Experts Desperate Unemployment Unemployment Rate

Author:Bill Maher

“Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.”

Seems Levels Situation Permanent Unemployment Inflation

Author:William Vickrey

“What we need to do together is to put in place the kind of - foster the kind of environment where businesses of all sizes - small, medium or large - want to invest, want to do the innovative things that our businesses here in America are known for doing, want to grow our economy and want to create the kind of jobs that will bring - reduce that unemployment rate.”

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Author:Valerie Jarrett

“Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.”

Work Unemployment Desirable

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The ultra-right would have us believe that families are in trouble because of humanism, feminism, secular education, or sexual liberation, but the consensus of Americans is that what tears families apart is unemployment, inflation, and financial worries.”

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Book:Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

Source: Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier

“In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.”

World Jobs Suffering Wealth Effort Support Economy Europe Income Inequality Massive Unemployment Greece Income Inequality

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.”

Long Problem Jobs Unemployment Demoralizing

Author:Nick Offerman

“If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.”

“The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.”

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Author:Arthur Laffer

“Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.”

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Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.”

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Author:Ida Tarbell

“Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?”

People Men Found Dignity Retirement Unemployment

Book:Original Sin

Source: Original Sin

“The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment”

War Wish Photographer Unemployment Fervent

Author:Robert Capa

“Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.”

People Said Lasts Situation Week Unemployment John Kerry

Author:Craig Kilborn

“Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.”

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Author:William Beveridge

“It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.”

Should Has Beens Suffering Degrees Convinced Stable Unemployment Wages

Book:Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

Source: Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids

“Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.”

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Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic

“The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.”

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Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“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.”

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Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.”

“The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.”

Lying Guy Sun Streets Serious Gay Beach California Punk Unemployment Percentages Collecting Bodybuilder

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The world is beset by challenges including the ongoing danger of international terrorism, and the significant political and economic threats posed by factors such as the high levels of corporate and sovereign debt and persistent unemployment.”

“That it is not same-gender relationships that are destroying marriage. What is actually destroying marriage is high unemployment, incarceration, a lack of education and ministers living in contradiction where they speak about holiness on one side but yet are living in adultery on the other.”

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Author:Otis Moss III

“Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.”

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Author:Billy Connolly

“Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where's the problem? That's an unemployment solution right there, folks! It's called natural selection.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.”

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Author:J. Stalin

“Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.”

Men Has Beens Real Home Liberty Poverty Tomorrow Paper Bread Oppression Exploitation Unemployment Deprived

Author:J. Stalin

“We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.”

Way Needs Giving Ends Development Skills India Importance Unemployment Skills Development

Author:Narendra Modi

“The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.”

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Book:Man in the Modern World

Source: Man in the Modern World

“America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.”

“There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.”

Block Unemployment Writer's Block

Author:Carl Hiaasen

“More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.”

People Way Has Beens Government Able Jobs America Benefits Fewer Unemployment Private Sector Unemployment Benefits

Author:Scott Walker

“In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.”

Wings Faults Unemployment Right Wing Unemployed

Author:Luke Ford

“The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.”

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Author:Annie Lennox

“Everyone gets laid off and everyone in Hollywood gets unemployment for six months while they're looking for a new job. So I would just do stand-up for six months and think I was really making it, and when my unemployment ran out, I had to get another job immediately.”

Thinking Jobs Months Six Hollywood Ran Unemployment Six Months New Job Getting Laid Laid Off

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”

Problem Government Three Plans Failing Solve Decades Planning Unemployment Planners

Author:Ronald Reagan

“What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is a good starting point. Sleep spares you humiliation and saves money at the same time: nothing to eat, nothing to buy, just lie back and dream your life away.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“The unemployment numbers are down to the lowest in 25 years.... The principle credit goes to Janet Reno, who continued to appoint special prosecutors.”

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Author:Dick Armey

“Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.”

Problem Running Answers Democrat Unemployment Presidency

Author:Bob Hope

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