Kenneth Arrow Quotes

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

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.

President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on is his own. The White House is now backtracking from its prediction that 2.6 million new jobs will be created in the U.S. this year. They say they were off by roughly 2.6 million jobs.

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.

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

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

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.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

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.

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

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

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.

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

George Bush created lots of jobs.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

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

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.

Can the private sector create enough good jobs that pay well for everyone that wants one?

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

Employment no longer responds to governments …