Job Market Quotes

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

In terms of job creation, every billion dollars invested in the physical infrastructure creates 47,000 new jobs.

One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.

B students work for C students - A students teach.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

We like to think that people have to work for their money.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

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.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

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

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

The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

Harvard graduates being laid off. How can that be?

We cannot get control of our borders until we do something about… a man or woman who is making 50¢ an hour in Mexico and can make 10 bucks an hour and the United States for a job that Americans will not do.

I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.

I'm very much of the opinion that to work is better than not to work.

Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs.

This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee.

The American economy must be altered to put business back in the driver's seat. The correct role for finance is to support job creation.

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.