#employment

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. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

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Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. ↗

— Hans Kung

#destruction #families #human #human beings #hundreds

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. ↗

— Adam Smith

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Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#more #more and more #more people #out #people

Life is about finding . . . what works best for you. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#life #meaning #unemployment #life

There are stories — legends, really — of the “steady job.” Old-timers gather graduates around the flickering light of a computer monitor and tell stories of how the company used to be, back when a job was for life, not just for the business cycle. … The graduates snicker. A steady job! They’ve never heard of such a thing. ↗

— Max Barry

#jobs #unemployment #business

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid. ↗

— John Cornyn

#fact #harry #harry reid #home #like

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war. ↗

— James Meade

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A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good... ↗

— CrimethInc.

#inspirational #leisure #life #unemployment #wisdom