524,000 Jobs were lost in December 2008: Obama

"524,000 jobs were lost in December across nearly all major American Industries. That means that our economy lost jobs in all twelve months of 2008, and that nearly 2.6 million jobs, lost last year, amount to the single worst year of job loss since World War II. The unemployment rate is now well over seven percent. In addition, we have nearly 3.4 million people who want full time work, but are only able to get part time work." -- Barack Obama

Unemployment for Those Willing to Work is Inequality

"A man willing to work and unable to find work is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun" -- Thomas Carlyle

Four Specters Haunt the Poor: Among Them Unemployment

"Four specters haunt the poor -- old age, accident, sickness and unemployment" -- David Lloyd George