Unemployment
Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.
Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist'. Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.