Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.
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Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
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.
The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.