Siobhan Davies Quotes

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

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

There are too few, low skill jobs for the number of low skill people.

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.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

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

Every person who is laid off in our society is in effect told that he is a person of little worth.

The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work.

Europe has about eighty steamships hugging the African coast the year round, yet our country cannot find employment for one.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

If you look at the geographic variation in long-term unemployment, it's really striking. There are pockets where employers don't want to go, but for some reason, in part because of adequate safety nets, people don't want to leave.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

We have too many actors for the jobs available.

I never could get a proper job.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.