The real minimum wage is zero.
Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.
We need a conservative welfare reform initiative that is focused on putting people back to work and ensures taxpayer money is only spent on programs that have been proven to work.
I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.
Stable growth ensures employment.
Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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.
Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
A dynamic economy, with more citizens working and paying taxes, will be our strongest tool to bring down budget deficits
When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.
What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"
In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.
The global economy is in pretty good shape.
Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.
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.
We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.
We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.
Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.
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.
The Federal Reserve is committed to fulfilling our statutory mandate of stable prices and maximum employment.
Private sector labor market flows provide additional indications of the strength of the labor market. For example, the quits rate has tended to be pro-cyclical, since more workers voluntarily quit their jobs when they are more confident about their ability to find new ones and when firms are competing more actively for new hires.
Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.
