Unemployment Quotes

With the lowest February unemployment rate in five years, nearly 28,500 more people working and some 5,100 fewer unemployed in Wisconsin than one-year-ago, we have strong evidence that the state's labor market is moving in a positive direction. - Roberta Gassman

With productivity up and inflationary pressures muted, the Federal Reserve Board elected this week not to change a key short-term interest rate. Moreover, most other economic data releases, such as unemployment and manufacturing, painted a slightly negative picture for future economic growth. These factors combined to keep mortgage rates stable. - Frank Nothaft

With little movement in Ohio's labor market from January to February, the state's unemployment rate was unchanged. We still question whether the dramatic decline in the calculated rate from December to January is fully supported by actual conditions. - Barbara Riley

With job-cut figures surging, you would expect to see long lines at the unemployment offices and at every location looking to hire. - John Challenger

With economic growth likely to remain below trend in the near term at least and unemployment set to continue rising, there is a very real danger that individual insolvencies and mortgage repossessions will climb markedly further over the coming months. - Howard Archer

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that. - Jo Ann Emerson

With a shrinking labor pool and a lower unemployment rate, employers are going to have to find ways to train people who are unemployed to fill the jobs that are available. - Andy Katz

Wisconsin's labor market continues to show healthy gains in 2006 in all of our metropolitan areas, with decreasing unemployment for the second month in a row when compared with 2005. - Roberta Gassman

Widespread layoffs and rising unemployment do not signal a rebound in confidence anytime soon... With the holiday season quickly approaching, there is little positive stimuli on the horizon. - Lynn Franco

While WTO accession is no cure-all, Saudi membership in the WTO,
under the rigorous terms we have negotiated, could have a lasting
effect on transforming the Saudi economy away from its over-dependence
on oil revenues and addressing the growing unemployment problems in
the kingdom. - Rob Portman