#unemployment

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 think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this. ↗

— Michael York

#being #face #feeling #fulfilled #game

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cut #draw #economy #government #government spending

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#cool #country #declining #direction #dorky

The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 recession. It's the reason we've got low unemployment and have created more than two million jobs in the last year. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#created #economy #enacted #got #jobs

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#compensation #degree #fact #job #job training

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#beyond #black #carry #citizens #civil

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#like #low #obviously #possibly #unemployment

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics. ↗

— James Meade

#economic #economic theory #economics #especially #i

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#deflation #depression #fault #first #first time