James Hoagland Quotes

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%.

It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis or remedy.

Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the state was a center for home foreclosures.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

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

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work.

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

Austerity policies can ironically end up entrenching the structural problems they were intended to address, as unemployed workers drop out of the workforce altogether and their skills degrade.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

The unemployment rate is not real.

There are a number of people who are not in the workforce who have given up looking for jobs, and that's the real economic crisis in America.

In some of the estates, there are generations of people who have been without work, so the environment and the example passed down generations is the normality of being without work.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.