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My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

— William Julius Wilson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I don't buy the argument that the state has no role to play.

— Chris Gabrieli

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

— Jane Byrne

Firms are not always willing to cut wages, even if there are people lined up outside the gates to work. So why don't they?

— Janet Yellen

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

— Tim Scott

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

— John Kasich

We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.

— Muhtar Kent

We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

— Manuel Moroun

I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

— Sal Albanese

✗Opposing Perspectives

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

— Roy Blunt

Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they're government jobs.

— Jesse Ventura