Labor Force Participation Quotes

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well as many of the other issues that we face.

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot!

The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

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

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

… compared to circumstances where the birth rate remains high—a decline in fertility from high to low levels allows a population to save and invest more, both in terms of human capital (ie education and training) and in terms of physical capital (eg roads, factories, machinery.)

The final solution for unemployment is work.

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.

Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

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.

Without work men are utterly undone

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

Out of the 1.2 billion people in India, one-third of them are between the age of 1-14 and by 2030, India will have a dynamic and youthful workforce of about 700 million with an average age of 35. This is expected to constitute a substantial proportion of world's workforce.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

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.

The scientific study of labor economics provided the opportunity for me to unite theory with evidence my lifetime intellectual passion.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.