Craig Reucassel Quotes

Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.

It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis or remedy.

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle ... present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

The only unifying force in Europe is unemployment.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

Unemployment in Florida peaked at 11.2 percent in 2009, higher than the national average, and the state was a center for home foreclosures.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.