Unemployed & Job Loss Quotes
- The page contains money quotes related to unemployment and job loss
- Quotes are attributed to politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders as well as authors like George Orwell
- Quotes discuss topics like economic downturns, poverty, bailouts of banks, and periods without work
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“At the same time that women in the U.S. are losing their jobs at higher numbers than men, women have lower earnings and fewer savings to fall back on during the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic” — Donna Brazile
“Nearly 40 million Americans have now lost their jobs due to coronavirus, yet Leader McConnell tells them to just ‘take a pause’” — Nancy Pelosi
“The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers – the elect, the money priesthood as it were – ‘Thou shalt make money’; the other for the employed – the slaves and underlings’ – ‘Thou shalt not lose thy job.'” — George Orwell
“The American economy and much of the world was plunged into the worst economic decline since the 1930s. Working people lost their jobs, their homes and their savings, while the government bailed out the banks” — Bernie Sanders
“For want of a dollar the bus ride was lost. For want of a bus ride the job was lost.
For want of a job the paycheck was lost. For want of a paycheck the housing was lost. And all for want of goddamn dollar” — Scott Santens
“I got hired by the Department of Unemployment after being fired by the Department of Labor” — Doug Pike
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“[Prison] is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions — poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed — which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished” — Howard Zinn
“There’s only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn’t matter how much money you make, you’re still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power” — Frances McDormand
“I never had a doubt about wanting to be an actress, but certainly when there were periods of unemployment, I would think, ‘Oh, I’m never going to work again’ The only thing I don’t like about it is the business part of it – the negotiating and all this stuff that you don’t learn in school. I’m not good with business” — Jessica Walter
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own — Harry Truman
“Consider just what we do in order to continue earning money to live. How many lines do we say we'd never cross, but end up crossing when the time comes, to avoid the perils of unemployment?” — Scott Santens
“When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working” — John F. Kennedy