Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Heath

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Brian Sandoval

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

David Caruso

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

Annie Lennox

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation, we had a lot of strikes going on, on a national scale, and a lot of discontent. That was reflected in the music.

Ron Paul

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

Michael Foot

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

Nick Hanauer

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Martha Quinn

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment.

Franklin Raines

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

William Shakespeare

Our praises are our wages.

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Thomas Carlyle

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Tim Powers

The wages of courage is death, lad, but it's the wages of everything else, too.

Thomas B. Macaulay

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

Michael Hudson

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.

Mark Twain

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Bruce Bartlett

The situation today is so different than in the '70s. The laws are different, and people's understanding about economics is different. I don't see any serious move for such controls.

Frank Murkowski

Alaska's gas has been stranded because the economics weren't there to support development, ... But now that's changed.

Timothy Noah

Sometime, while I wasn't paying attention, trickle-down economics got respectable.

Red McCombs

We'd have to see what the economics actually are. My primary interest is in seeing San Antonio has an opportunity to secure a franchise.

Mike McCall

We're studying it hard. We can't yet justify it; we can't make the economics work yet.

Albert Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

Alice Rivlin

The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

Andrew Shields

You learn about economics and mass produce little things to make a profit.

Thomas Sowell

Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.