Unemployment Rate Quotes:

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

- Barack Obama

source: "CBS 'Early Show' Touted Softest Part of Obama '60 Minutes' Interview, Ignored Tough Questions". Interview with Steve Kroft, www.mrc.org. November 7, 2010.

topic: Jobs, New Normal, People, Unemployment Rate

The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Country, United States, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate

The U.S. unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in nearly seven years. The job sector that has seen the most growth is in the field of Republican presidential candidates.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Jobs, Years, Presidential, Unemployment Rate

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.

- James Q. Wilson

topic: Educational, Years, California, Chinatown, Tuberculosis

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

- Bruce Babbitt

source: Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

topic: Unemployment, Gone, Acres, Unemployment Rate, Northwestern

Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.

- Marsha Blackburn

topic: Government, America, Entrepreneur, Unemployment Rate

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

- Alex Tabarrok

topic: Country, College, Keys, Going To College, Educated Person

Does anybody has President Obama's phone number? 'Cause I have figure out why the unemployment rate in the United States is so high. Because Zack Ryder's doing all the jobs.

- Zack Ryder

topic: Jobs, Phones, Wwe, Phone Numbers, Unemployment Rate

Here in Iowa, as a state senator, I have worked hard to find solutions that work for our state and as a result we've reduced taxes and lowered the unemployment rate. We have done that through hard work and sticking to our Iowa values. In the final months of this campaign I'll be asking voters to send me, and those Iowa values, to Washington, D.C.

- Joni Ernst

source: Source: hotair.com

topic: Unemployment Rate

There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.

- Jim Clifton

source: "Gallup CEO Blasts Press's Complacency in Covering Unemployment and Underemployment" by Tom Blumer, www.newsbusters.org. February 4, 2015.

topic: Lying, Long, Suffering, Underemployed, Unemployment Rate

I can't possibly predict precisely what the unemployment rate will be at the end of one year. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower.

- Mitt Romney

source: "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.newsbusters.org. May 23, 2012.

topic: Jobs, Keys, Years, Job Growth, Unemployment Rate

Unfortunately, we have a 50% unemployment rate among our urban youth of color. It's not about making green jobs more attractive. It's about making them more available. And that requires Congress passing legislation that will give a real break to the people who want to introduce new technologies to the American marketplace.

- Van Jones

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Jobs, Real, Technology, Unemployment Rate

We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

- Michelle Obama

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Military, Numbers, Unemployment, Military Spouse, Unemployment Rate

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

- Julianne Malveaux

source: Source: www.theskanner.com

topic: President, Unemployment, Gaps, Unemployment Rate

I'm not interested in, you know, turning the clock back or pointing fingers, but I am interested in trying to figure out how we come together to chart a better way forward and one that will restore confidence in, you know, small and medium-size businesses and consumers and begin to chip away at the unemployment rate.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Way Forward, Trying, Together, Pointing Fingers, Unemployment Rate

The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: annaz.blogspot.com

topic: Heart, Long, People, Spectrum, Heart Wrenching

In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: billmoyers.com

topic: Jobs, Kids, Issues, Police Brutality, Voter Suppression

There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.

- David Remnick

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Real, Cutting, Thinking, Industrialization, Unemployment Rate

I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And that is reflected in the fact that (whilst of course there are people who are still unemployed) our unemployment rate is low and (whilst of course we need to export more) we are attracting a huge amount of inward investment into Britain.

- George Osborne

source: Source: www.economist.com

topic: Country, Thinking, People, European Countries, Globalisation

We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when he got in - you know, we were losing more than 700,000 jobs a month. The unemployment rate was skyrocketing. And now it's at under 5 percent, so there is a lot of progress that has happened.

- Julian Castro

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Unemployment Rate

The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

- Bill Maher

topic: People, Scary, Experts, Unemployment Rate

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.

- Jay Leno

topic: Greek, President, Unemployment, Risen, Unemployment Rate

The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

- Jay Leno

topic: Jobs, Mean, White, Looking For A Job, Unemployment Rate

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

- Cliff Stearns

topic: Home, College, Income, Median, Crime Rates

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

- William Weld

topic: Unemployment, Rate, Stills, Unemployment Rate

What we need to do together is to put in place the kind of - foster the kind of environment where businesses of all sizes - small, medium or large - want to invest, want to do the innovative things that our businesses here in America are known for doing, want to grow our economy and want to create the kind of jobs that will bring - reduce that unemployment rate.

- Valerie Jarrett

topic: Jobs, America, Together, Unemployment Rate

If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.

- Paul Krugman

topic: Simple, Years, Errors, Unemployment Rate

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

- Alexis Herman

topic: Graduation, College, African American, College Degree, Unemployment Rate

Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that economics explains Trump. The US is doing relatively well, the economy has significantly recovered since 2008, unemployment rates are low. I would say rather that his appeal to the working class was cultural: "I'll bring back the kinds of jobs your fathers had," and, by implication, the whiter, simpler post-war world when America had no real economic competition.

- Anne Applebaum

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Jobs, Mistake, Father, Economic Competition, Post War

The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Jobs, College, Years, Unemployment Rate

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

- William Weld

topic: Jobs, Stupid, Mean, Mean People, Unemployment Rate

Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.

- Laura Chinchilla

topic: Running, Country, Jobs, Unemployment Rate

You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Successful, Hot, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate

Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.

- Billy Connolly

source: "Billy Connolly: Live 1994". DVD, 1994.

topic: Funny, Country, Humor, National Anthem, Unemployment Rate

When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Jobs, Unemployment, Four, Unemployment Rate

A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.

- Michelle Malkin

topic: Cities, Oakland, Justice, Saboteurs, Pushovers

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

- Bill Gates

source: "The U.S. Economy and Public Education" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2011.

topic: Unemployment Rate

Whites have more than eleven times the net worth or wealth of African Americans. They make greater salaries. Our unemployment rate is twice theirs. You look at the prison system and who that's chewing up.

- Randall Robinson

topic: African American, Salary, Unemployment, Prison System, Net Worth

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

- Jim Talent

source: "The Bain Debate: How Much Will Voters Care About Romney's Role?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judith Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 21, 2012.

topic: People, Unemployment, Gone, Unemployment Rate

I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

- Fred Upton

topic: Government, Car, Choices, Warranty, Delegation

We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who is going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race. I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.

- Rick Santorum

topic: Race, Growth, Needs, Conservative Values, Unemployment Rate

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

- Colin Powell

source: "Colin Powell reflects on endorsing Obama in 2008". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 22, 2012.

topic: Moving, Issues, Unemployment, Get Moving, Unemployment Rate