J. D. Hayworth Quotes

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

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.

More Missourians are working than ever before.

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

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.

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.

More Americans are working today than at any time in history.

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

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

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

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

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.

You see the unemployment rate is at a very, very low level. Job enthusiasm and manufacturing, business enthusiasm is at record levels; never been higher... We've got it going.

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.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

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

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.

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.

President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

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.

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.

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

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.