Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.

Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.

I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the '80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have been to have been Minister for Employment to see, can you solve these problems? Can you get people into work?

We got to put in place policies to ensure that those who are unemployed, what do we do for them?

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.

I worked at the Illinois unemployment office. I got $55 a week and the unemployed got $45. And they only had to come in once a week.

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

I feel we should be able … to find a way of employing more of these so-called unemployables

Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where jobs are.

Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.

There's a belief... in the country that we can cure unemployment by creating opportunity. The skills gap proves that opportunity along is not enough to get people employed.