Quotes about Unemployment

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

Americans already believed Carter was wasting too much time on the Middle East when there were more pressing problems at home. The country was experiencing double-digit inflation coupled with high unemployment and anemic growth—a confounding phenomenon tagged "stagflation." As for the president's job performance, the two dreaded lines on the graph finally crossed in the spring of 1978, with more Americans disapproving

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

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.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.