Frank Levy Quotes

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.

Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

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.

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

We need to give up the idea that economic growth alone can or will reach down to provide good jobs to the chronically unemployed .... Only a strong program of public employment has ever achieved that in the past ...

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

I always get a little bit frustrated with Republicans, because we always talk about job creators, and really who we should be talking to is their employees.

Employment no longer responds to governments …

More than anything else, Ohio needs jobs.

The reduction of working hours is a decisive means of creating a sufficient number of jobs.

One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation.

Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.

If you want to get wages up in America for middle income Americans, there's only one way I know how to do that in real terms... by having more businesses want to hire more people.

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!

Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

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.

I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.

Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.

I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.

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

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.