Bob Beauprez Quotes

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.

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.

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

More Missourians are working than ever before.

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

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

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

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

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

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

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

In the early spring of this year there were actually and proportionately more people out of work in this country than in any other nation in the world.

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

There are several million job vacancies on the country right now, but they don’t line up with skills [of the unemployed.]

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