David Autor Quotes

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

I never could get a proper job.

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.

Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

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

Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

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.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

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

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

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.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

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

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.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

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

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.