Unemployment Quotes

Many families are struggling, at least there will be direct payments for every working class adult and their children, and an extension of unemployment benefits.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

And 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.

Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.

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.

Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment.

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

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

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to — everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.