Richard M. Daley Quotes

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

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

It makes no sense economically that public money goes to help foreign workers and migrants in a region where unemployment is higher than national average.

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

The right-wingers don't want to admit that for some people, there are no jobs; they think that conscientiousness in and of itself will do the trick.

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.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

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.

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

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.

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

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

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

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

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

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.