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I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

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