Quotes About Unemployment Insurance

#1. At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed HIV. Three years later I decide to dedicate the remainder of my life to art. Leaving work and refusing the assistance of Unemployment Insurance or Welfare, I challenged myself to live completely through my art.

Joe Average

#2. Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

#3. Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Charles B. Rangel

#4. The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.

John Ensign

#5. The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

Franklin Raines

#6. Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of billions more spent on unemployment insurance.

Nina Easton

#7. I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

Chuck Schumer

#8. Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It's not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you're working. You get help when you're not.

Sherrod Brown

#9. Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus.

Sander Levin

#10. Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives ... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.

Stephen Harper

#12. Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Ronald Reagan

#13. Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

Bernard Baruch

#14. The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.

Lawrence Kudlow

#15. I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.

Alan Furst

#16. Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

Hank Johnson

#17. No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

Henry Ford

#18. The whole program of unemployment insurance, Social Security, was a confession of the failure of our whole social order. And confession of failure of Christian principles: that man, in fact, did not look after his brother.

Studs Terkel

#19. The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families and businesses; increased transfer payments, like unemployment insurance; and increased direct government spending, like infrastructure investment.

Christina Romer

#20. There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

Chris Jericho

#21. It's shameful that today's mouthy political expositors aren't better versed in Orwell. Can you imagine a theatre director who hasn't studied Shakespeare?

William Giraldi

#22. As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

Wendy McElroy

#23. If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

Paul Farmer

#24. I lost the ability to consider the question of predestination with necessary scepticism.

Alain De Botton

#25. Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

Jan C. Ting

#26. A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving.

Balroop Singh

#27. The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Aristotle.

#28. Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Ben Vereen

#29. If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama's policies, and he's not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he's gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums?

Rush Limbaugh