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  • What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate of downward mobility, but also the fact that youth live in a commercially carpet-bombed and commodified environment that is unlike anything experienced by those of previous generations. Nothing has prepared this generation for the inhospitable and savage new world of commodification, privatization, joblessness, frustrated hopes and stillborn projects.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.
  • Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

    Book   School   Loss  
  • From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

    Skills   Faces   Violence  
    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.

    Teacher   Jobs   Teaching  
    "House Divided: Kucinich Delegates Block Kerry From Receiving Unanimous Nomination". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 29, 2004.
  • Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans.

    Home   Loss   College  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • 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.

    Jobs   People   Suffering  
  • Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

    Source: www.theskanner.com
  • Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There's no evidence that Tea Party adherence are any more racist than other Republicans and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats in November, having one's opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness.

    "Andrew Breitbart on 'Hannity': 'This Is Not About Shirley Sherrod'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2010.
  • Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.

    "A Prayer for America". Book by Dennis Kucinich, 2003.
  • You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

    Police   Kabul   Poverty  
    "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.
  • Military inclusion has never been a central demand from trans populations, who consistently name criminalization, immigration enforcement, poverty and joblessness as top priorities.

    "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
  • Obama does not need to worry as much as past Democratic presidents about being labeled soft on national security - not after giving the order that led to the assassination of Osama bin Laden. No, his biggest concern is being labeled tone deaf on joblessness and debt.

    Past   Order   Giving  
  • We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment.

    War   Talking   Drug  
    "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.
  • Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

    Self   Class   Roots  
  • We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment.

    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

    Needs   Employment   Pay  
  • A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and monetary policies. People have not been drawn into the labor market even during periods of economic recovery.

    Interview with Gerald Early, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 1996.
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