Unemployment (or joblessness), as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks. The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently in the labour force. In a 2011 news story, BusinessWeek reported, "More than 200 mi...
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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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