Amity Shlaes Quotes

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've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

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

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

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.

President Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

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.

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

Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

Employment no longer responds to governments …

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

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.

There were a lot of manufacturing jobs lost over a long period of time and particularly after - during the Great Recession. We've had some recovery in manufacturing employment as the economy's recovered.

There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

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.

The job market improved impressively under Barack Obama's presidency after the Great Recession, when millions of jobs vanished seemingly overnight.

The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth.

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

The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

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