Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out of debt had this country until people get back to work, until they have good-paying jobs, and in between times, we will not move this economy forward until we are helping people be able to keep going in this recession.

The so-called second New Deal of 1935 - including the Works Progress Administration, Social Security and the Wagner Act legalizing union labor - represented an effort to meet the rising voices demanding a more aggressive government approach to the collapse of national prosperity.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

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

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

When people have jobs in a thriving economy, it solves a lot of problems.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to find a way to help the American people. In 1933, he created a relief program known as the New Deal. Two years later, he expanded the New Deal by adding the Works Progress Administration, which was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.

We have to focus on growing the economy, getting people working again, so they can put a roof over their heads to provide health care and education for their children and plan for their retirement.

Our people want jobs. They don't want a safety net as a way of life.

I care about America. I care about the people that can't find jobs. I care about my 20 grandkids and what kind of America they are going to have.

Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that.

We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.

We cannot realize financial reconstruction and enhance social security without a strong economy.

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.

From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as an answer to poverty, unemployment and the bureaucratic behemoth of the modern welfare state.

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.

Only a state with resources can deplete poverty.