Catholic Church Quotes

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

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

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 ...

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

For instance, twelve men are struggling for employment in a trade where there is only room for eight ; four are driven out of that trade, but they are not trampled out of existence. A good deal of competition merely decides what kind of work a man is to do though of course when a man can only do one kind of work, it may easily become a struggle for bare life.

I am running because I believe strongly that we need to get folks back to work and address the needs that the folks in the 1st Congressional District have in terms of employment and economic opportunity.

Expanding access to decent work opportunities is the most effective way to increase labor-market participation, lift people out of poverty, reduce inequality, and drive economic growth. It should be at the center of policymaking. The alternative is a dog-eat-dog world in which too many will feel left out.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

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.

I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

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

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

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

The Negro claims, as a matter of simple justice, his full share in America's economic and social life. He sees adequate employment opportunities as a chief means of attaining this goal

The unemployed have rights that are above charity. They have the right to work.

All people shall have the right and the obligation to work.