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Unemployment Quotes
Straight talk on joblessness, policy, and the economy.
These lines take a clear-eyed economic view, pointing out persistent racial gaps in joblessness and the long-debated tradeoff between inflation and employment. Related reading lives under Economic quotes.
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- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.
- Greater Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.
- Categorical
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Major drivers of global unemployment are lack of job creation and skills shortage or mismatch.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The interest rate because of Mr. Raghuram Rajan has been too high, and so medium and small industries have all collapsed. This has led to increased unemployment.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
- Rate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The unemployment rate is not real.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.
- Export
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- Nov 07, 2020
Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.
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- Nov 07, 2020
They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020