Quotes About Full Employment

#1. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Janet Yellen

#2. There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

William Vickrey

#3. The Community was dull. It was nice and it was quiet, if you lived in the right places, and there was full employment and nobody was starving and everybody was happy. It was no wonder people wanted to leave.

Dave Hutchinson

#4. If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and that you would not have lower unemployment.

Milton Friedman

#5. Full employment - very full employment; long, weary, back-breaking employment - is characteristic of precisely the nations that are most retarded industrially.

Henry Hazlitt

#6. We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.

Denis Healey

#7. The idea of the "job" as the answer to all woes, individual and social, is one of the most pernicious myths of modern society. It is promoted by politicians, parents, newspaper moralists and leaders of industry, on the left and on the right: paradise, they say, is "full employment.

Tom Hodgkinson

#8. We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

David Suzuki

#9. Giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.

Jack Kemp

#10. The full employment situation reinforces itself.

Jared Bernstein

#11. I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment.

Alan Grayson

#12. If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.

Paul Ryan

#13. We've never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don't think it's going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.

Ben Bernanke

#14. I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

William Vickrey

#15. The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

Phil Harding

#16. Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults - its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Robert B. Reich

#17. Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself

Henry Hazlitt

#18. The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#19. I ended up with enough equipment to bring full employment to a vale of sherpas -

Bill Bryson

#20. Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes rather than make matters worse? Yes.

Janet Yellen

#21. New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

Margaret Thatcher

#22. It is no great feat for an economy to create a large number of very-low-wage jobs. Slavery, after all, was a full employment system.

Robert B. Reich

#23. There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment.

Ludwig Von Mises

#24. Full employment is a socially hazardous goal. In effect, it aspires to restore through political expedients the pre-industrial state of toil that science, engineering, technology and modern management are pledged to overcome.

Louis O. Kelso

#25. Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to
everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

Betty Williams

#26. I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.

John Maynard Keynes

#27. We are the only species on this planet without full employment.

Paul Hawken

#28. There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.

William Beveridge

#29. Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Harriet Martineau

#30. All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

David Eddings

#31. The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.

Louis O. Kelso

#32. I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

Rob Paulsen

#33. Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#34. Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.

Alex Pareene

#35. In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#36. Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!

Nate Powell