Suze Orman Quotes

Because a person has to be either working or looking for work to be counted as part of the labor force, an increase in the number of people too discouraged to continue their search for work would reduce the unemployment rate, all else being equal - but not for a positive reason.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

I've never believed unemployment numbers because the way that they calculate unemployment makes no sense whatsoever. It's not how many people are unemployed. It's how many people are actively looking for a job.

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 White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

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.

In the early spring of this year there were actually and proportionately more people out of work in this country than in any other nation in the world.

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

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.

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job.

I keep saying we've got 92 million Americans on the beach. They're not working, and they're all eating, and they're all making phone calls, and they're all watching television. But they're not working. You mean to tell me if you tell them that to keep all that they're going to have to get a job, that that is a detriment to your campaign?

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

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.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

If there are not enough jobs for all, the elimination of Negro unemployment will be impossible.

Unemployed people are spoiled

Treating unemployment as a national problem is almost always a mistake. Employment trends vary dramatically by race, geography, gender and level of education. But none of that is reflected in the all-encompassing unemployment rate, and hence policies informed only by that number are bound to fall short.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.