Unemployment occurs when a person is available and willing to work but currently without work. The prevalence of unemployment is usually measured using the unemployment rate, which is defined as the percentage of those in the labor force who are unemployed. The unemployment rate is also used in economic studies and economic indices such as the United States' Conference Board's Index of Leading Indicators as a measure of the state of macroeconomic...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. ,
- A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception. ,
- When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ,
- An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ,
- We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ,
- Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. ,
- You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. ,
- Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. ,
- A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ,
- To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
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- Bradley Branning ,
- Spencer Moon ,
- Carol Baldwin ,
- Natalie Evans ,
- Donna Ludlow ,
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- Gary Costello ,
- Bradley Foster ,
- Craig ,
- Whitney Dean
