Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program Votes: 6
Nancy PelosiThis would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment. Votes: 4
William Randolph HearstAny system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. Votes: 4
Jimmy CarterThe trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. Votes: 4
Slappy WhiteUnemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment. Votes: 3
Ludwig von MisesUnemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it. Votes: 3
John Kenneth GalbraithUnemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal. Votes: 3
Ellen WilkinsonUnemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change. Votes: 3
Barack ObamaSpeaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits. Votes: 2
Alan NunneleeThe 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. Votes: 2
Barry EichengreenIt's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. Votes: 2
Nigel FarageThe only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits. Votes: 0
Philip LarkinFour specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment Votes: 0
David Lloyd GeorgeCertainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation. Votes: 0
Ben BernankeThe automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid. Votes: 0
Franklin RainesPeople are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them. Votes: 0
Bruce BartlettComputers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterThere will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%. Votes: 0
Ben BernankeWhen you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent. Votes: 0
Thomas FriedmanThe employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment Votes: 0
Immanuel WallersteinDemocrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency. Votes: 0
Bob HopeThe way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different. Votes: 0
Rush LimbaughYou are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts. Votes: 0
Jesse JacksonIt takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable. Votes: 0
Ben BernankeInflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved. Votes: 0
Margaret ThatcherChina has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. Votes: 0
Zhou EnlaiWe need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment. Votes: 0
Narendra ModiContinuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work. Votes: 0
Jon KylThe longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow. Votes: 0
George H. W. BushIf there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work. Votes: 0
Henry FordNo unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land. Votes: 0
Henry FordOnce you stop looking for a job, you are no longer considered part of the unemployment number. Votes: 0
Suze OrmanIf you subsidize apples, you get more apples; if you subsidize unemployment, you get more of it. Votes: 0
Charles KrauthammerHistory teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down. Votes: 0
Austan GoolsbeeIn the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. Votes: 0
James MeadeIf you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment. Votes: 0
Milton FriedmanI could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. Votes: 2 Al Sharpton
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. Votes: 6 Scott Walker
Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school. Votes: 2 Adam Davidson
It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago. Votes: 4 Richard M. Daley
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. Votes: 3 Alexis Herman