Jobless Rate Quotes

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.

Millions are unemployed and our roads are falling apart. If we can spend $6 trillion sending people to war, we can spend $1 trillion to put Americans to work fixing our nation's crumbling infrastructure. Let's rebuild America and create jobs.

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

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

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t 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.

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.

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 unemployment rate is not real.

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

We're starting to see, as the economy improves, that the unemployment rate among veterans and military spouses - we're seeing some improvement in those numbers. And that's a good thing.

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

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.