The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.
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.
Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.
Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.
Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.
If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.
Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.
Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.
We need to realise that entrepreneurship is not necessarily increasing employment.
Our society has become an employee society.
For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.
Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.
People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.
Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.
When you consider the many ways in which people have to make a living every day when they wake up, I figure that eating 20 eggs isn't that bad.
Employment no longer responds to governments …
It's tough to break into this business - now more so than ever.
