“While my state experiences unemployment rates not seen since the Great Depression, it is unconscionable that illegal workers would be brought into Louisiana, aggravating our employment crisis and depressing earnings for our workers.”
Mary Landrieu
“[Extending unemployment benefits] is the only kind of stimulus that helps each and every unemployed worker, who in some sense has borne the pain of the recession.”
Wendell Primus
“When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.”
Jesse Jackson
“Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed”
Edward Heath
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”
Milton Friedman
“As the unemployment rate has fallen, the opportunities for older workers has improved. Employers have been desperate for choices and they are somewhat more receptive these days to hiring older workers than they have been in the past.”
Sara Rix
“Unemployment in Crittenden County is relatively low, butthink that's because many workers have taken lower-skilled jobsthan they are qualified to perform,”
Lee Conrad
