Kim Campbell
Politician
"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."
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Unemployment
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Franklin Raines
Business Executive
"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid."
William Barrett
Philosopher
"Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is."
Larry Elder
Political Commentator, Author, Radio Host
"Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order."
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"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
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"Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment."
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"A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities."
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"With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that."
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"Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."
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"There is no unemployment in eco-systems"
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"In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed."
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"Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved."
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"Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster."
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"There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that."
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"The final solution for unemployment is work."
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"If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work."
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"Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment."
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"Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education."
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"The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment"
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"There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment."
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"I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working."
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"There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high enough. That is industry's 2nd job. 1st job is to make good product. 2nd pay a good wage."
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"My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues"
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"Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving."
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