Robert Pollin Quotes

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

When you have 7 percent unemployed, you have 93 percent working.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

We've created over 200,000 jobs every month this year. Hasn't happened in 17 years. I guess my first question is, when do the Republicans stop calling it 'Obama's economy'?

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

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

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

George Bush created lots of jobs.

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

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.

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.

I will tell you that I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

Donald Trump has brought jobs back to this country.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

When we took over the economy, we were losing 800 thousand jobs a month under the [George W.] Bush administration.

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.