"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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"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results."
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"I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot."
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"Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%."
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"I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office."
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"I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment."
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"As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?"
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"It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face."
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"Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change."
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"I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain."
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"The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a dog's ass."
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"You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly."
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"For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."
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"It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job."
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"We Conservatives hate unemployment."
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"We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing."
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