Henry McNeal Turner Quotes

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

For instance, twelve men are struggling for employment in a trade where there is only room for eight ; four are driven out of that trade, but they are not trampled out of existence. A good deal of competition merely decides what kind of work a man is to do though of course when a man can only do one kind of work, it may easily become a struggle for bare life.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

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.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

They should be working, and there isn't enough work.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

The only way in which a European union, embracing Britain but excluding eastern Europe, could become economically healthy would be develop the closest sort of trading relationships either with this hemisphere or with Africa.

Every person who is laid off in our society is in effect told that he is a person of little worth.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

There are a number of people who are not in the workforce who have given up looking for jobs, and that's the real economic crisis in America.

If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go, but for some reason, in part because of adequate safety nets, people don't want to leave.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

I never could get a proper job.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.