Unemployment Benefits Quotes:

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

- Nancy Pelosi

source: "Pelosi: Unemployment Checks Fastest Way to Create Jobs". www.foxnews.com. July 01, 2010.

topic: Jobs, Creating, Unemployment, Creating Jobs, Unemployment Benefits

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

topic: Teacher, School, Mean, Government Spending, Unemployment Benefits

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

- Richard Neal

topic: Children, Fall, Safety, Foster Care, Child Care

Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

- Arthur Laffer

topic: Thinking, Two, Giving, Unemployment Benefits

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

- Philip Larkin

topic: Work, Unemployment, Benefits, Unemployment Benefits

The single biggest stimulus to the economy are the unemployment benefits we're paying. These people go out and they spend the money. They go out and they have to get by to everything from paying their mortgage or buying food or just getting by. It has a significant impact on economic growth and the continuation of economic growth.

- Joe Biden

topic: Impact, People, Growth, Unemployment Benefits

In the name of compassion, Obama advocates seemingly endless extensions of unemployment benefits because his economic theology holds that by paying people not to work, you will create jobs. It not only fails to factor in the obvious deterrent that extended benefits have on their recipients but also falsely assumes that transferring money from one pocket to the next generates more spending - by some mythical multiple factor, no less. Back on planet Earth, studies reveal that extending unemployment benefits results in more unemployment.

- David Limbaugh

topic: Jobs, Compassion, Names, Deterrent, Unemployment Benefits

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.

- Raj Chetty

source: Raj Chetty (2005). “Why Do Unemployment Benefits Raise Unemployment Durations?: The Role of Borrowing Constraints and Income Effects”

topic: Unemployment, Benefits, Duration, Unemployment Benefits

Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Government, Unemployment, Benefits, Government Policy, Unemployment Benefits

You know, there is an argument to be made that these extensions of unemployment benefits keep people from going and finding jobs. In fact there are some studies that have been done that show people stay on unemployment compensation and they don't look for a job until two or three weeks before they know the benefits are going to run out.

- Tom DeLay

topic: Running, Jobs, Two, Unemployment Benefits

People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job or may not try to find one as quickly as they would without the benefit.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Jobs, Philosophy, People, Unemployment Benefits

I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.

- Edward C. Prescott

topic: Differences, Important, United States, Unemployment Benefits

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

- Scott Walker

topic: Jobs, Government, America, Fewer, Unemployment Benefits