Workforce Quotes - Page 3

• I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "NPR's Interview With House Speaker Paul Ryan On Poverty And Politics". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. July 15, 2016.

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• I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  "An Interview With Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama Talks Gender Parity". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.

  Robert Kenner

  Animal, Hands, Land

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Because the 1979 strike against U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio was an occupation - and actually, that's a model that really should be pursued now.They went on from striking to trying to have the workforce and the communities take over the abandoned factories that U.S. Steel was dismantling.

  Noam Chomsky

  Ohio, Community, Trying

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Fall, Numbers, Work Out

  "Sheryl Sandberg Is Half Right" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2013.

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• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  School, Mobility, Serious

  "Pre-School Is Where Upward Mobility Begins" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.

  Ken Salazar

  Sports, Country, Thinking

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• About 14 percent of our nation's civilian workforce is foreign-born.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Born

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• Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.

  M. M. Pallam Raju

  Skills, Growth, Development

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• The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate challenge of poorly-educated people in today's workforce by strengthening employee training programs.

  Gregory Balestrero

  Past, Years, People

  Public power, Volume 48. American Public Power Association, 1990.

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• CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Thinking, Two, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Home, Succeed, Impediments

  "Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: ‘I Feel Guilty Working Because Of My Kids’" by Catharine Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

  Howard Stringer

  Fire, Japan, Paid

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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Special, Stuff, Majority

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• In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will pave the way to a new future. It is time to transform our educational system in America to embrace and nurture creativity as a core value.

  Larry R. Thompson

  Educational, Creativity, America

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• State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.

  Edward B. Rust, Jr.

  Country, Educational, Adoption

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• If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and fighting wars, the results will be profound. We will gradually lose our successful workforce.

  Meg Whitman

  Jobs, Attitude, War

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• Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous

  Juan Somavia

  Children, Kids, Men

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• The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.

  Linda Grant

  Daughter, Mother, War

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• Having women in office is vital to the health of our democracy because women play a unique role in our society. By and large, women are still the primary caregivers in families, even as we have taken our place in the workforce.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Taken, Unique, Play

  "It’s Time to Put More Women in Office" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2009.

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• As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

  Helen Fisher

  Mean, Unhappy, Gains

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• The Obama administration will continue to fight for a comprehensive immigration solution that includes AgJobs and a stable workforce for our farms.

  Tom Vilsack

  Fighting, Administration, Immigration

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• There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Children, Giving Up

  "Sheryl Sandberg, ‘Lean In’ Author And Facebook COO, On The Biggest Mistakes Working Women Make". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• I'd like them [people] to leave thinking about the challenges women face in the workforce, but more importantly to really feel the emotional highs and lows of those challenges - to have really experienced that unsettling place where ambition crosses over into something else entirely.

  Meera Menon

  Ambition, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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