- Nov 07, 2020
Unemployment Quotes
Straight talk on joblessness, policy, and the economy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.
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- Nov 07, 2020