Janet Yellen Quotes

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.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

Jobs can change a lot without there being huge changes in employment rates.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.

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

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.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

The increase in salaries at private companies has exploded, and Romania also faces a labor shortage, especially in construction. We believe that the Romanian market will remain an incentive, so that migration will not be an issue.

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.

Stable growth ensures employment.

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

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.

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

There is only one way to reduce unemployment in France: You have to explain to the French people that they have to work harder.

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

We must switch from a regulatory framework centered on the protection of individual jobs to the idea of protection on the market based on the concept of employability.

The Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

There are no employees without employers.

We have middle skill jobs available, and high skill jobs available. There are no longer and unskilled jobs.

There is this real divisive theory that if we allow more immigrants to come into this country, that they're going to take our jobs. It is simply not true. Every person I know who wants to work in a hotel and change sheets can do it.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.