Thomas Menino Quotes

Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to rely on someone.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

I know what it's like to see someone lose their job as a result of the European Union. I saw my father lose his job, I saw his business go to the wall, I saw 24 people who he employed also lose their jobs.

President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

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

Unemployment is painful.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

When your father loses his job you're not sure what the future is going to be. I was conscious that people were interested in what was happening to my father.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

The lack of work destroys people.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

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

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.

As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom.

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.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

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