Emanuel Cleaver Quotes

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

The unemployment rate is not real.

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.

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

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

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

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

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

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

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

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.