Michael Kazin Quotes

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

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

How will we deal with a world where leisure is abundant and there aren't enough good-paying jobs to go around? To meet this political and economic meta-challenge, the hot new idea is the universal basic income — using some of the wealth generated by all this new technology to guarantee everyone a baseline income, whether they are working or not.

We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

The Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

The priority of my government’s action is the creation of jobs, lots of jobs.

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

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

Every person - we want to make sure that every person who wants a job will indeed get one.

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

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be taxed at the standard rate of tax. That would increase the incentive to take low-wage jobs.

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.