Todd Tiahrt Quotes

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

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

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.

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

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

The question today is whether we should be creating millions of new jobs at present wages or fewer new jobs at better wages.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

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?

For any economy, there are two basic factors determining how many jobs are available at any given time. The first is the overall level of activity - with GDP as a rough, if inadequate measure of overall activity - and the second is what share of GDP goes to hiring people into jobs. In terms of our current situation, after the Great Recession hit in full in 2008, US GDP has grown at an anemic average rate of 1.3 percent per year, as opposed to the historic average rate from 1950 until 2007 of 3.3 percent.

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.

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

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

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

More Missourians are working than ever before.