#unemployment

As long as we remain vigilant at building our internal abundance—an abundance of integrity, an abundance of forgiveness, an abundance of service, an abundance of love—then external lack is bound to be temporary. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#faith #inner-work #unemployment #faith

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent. ↗

— William Vickrey

#calling #currently #define #employment #full

Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation. ↗

— William Vickrey

#inflation #keep #level #more #percent

If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. ↗

— William Vickrey

#bargain #brought #cost #could #down

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare. ↗

— William Vickrey

#evil #far #greater #greater evil #human

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#businesses #down #extent #go #going

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. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countless #create #double-digit #endures #jobs

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. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#deficit #domestic #economy #increasing #look

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#department #i #i remember #office #post

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#european #european union #failure #growth #low