Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.
People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.
Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher chances of incarceration and unemployment.
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer’s dream.
The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.
A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.
Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
Michael Dorsey: I don't believe in hell. I believe in UNEMPLOYMENT, but not hell.
Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.
I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.
The cool thing about unemployment is every day is Saturday.
Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.
Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.
For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.
