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The full employment situation reinforces itself. -- Jared Bernstein
Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. -- Janet Yellen
Sustainable energy + food security + healthy environment = full employment + better future. -- Phil Harding
We are the only species on this planet without full employment. -- Paul Hawken
There prevails on a free labor market a tendency toward full employment. -- Ludwig von Mises
We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. -- Paul Hawken
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. -- Harriet Martineau
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation. -- Denis Healey
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, -- Janet Yellen
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment. -- Betty Williams
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already. -- Paul Ryan
New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity. -- Margaret Thatcher
I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment. -- Alan Grayson
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
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. -- John Maynard Keynes
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously. -- Janet Yellen
... 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
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
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes. -- John Maynard Keynes
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
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
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
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
Only the federal government has the power to spend beyond its current revenue. It shouldn't do that when the economy is at full employment. But it's an essential step for an economy mired in recession. -- Robert H. Frank
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
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
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
Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional changes, especially regarding wage-setting and other aspects of the employment relationship, would be essential if full employment was to be sustained. -- Jim Stanford
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local development, that would command the support of all stakeholders and all international organizations concerned, should be awarded the [Nobel] prize. I am sure they would get it not just for economics, but also for peace in the world. -- Juan Somavia
Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment. -- Alex Pareene
I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business. -- Rob Paulsen
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
The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods. -- Stephen Harper
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
When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive. -- Stewart D. Friedman
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

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