Underemployment Quotes

We're dealing with a crisis of inequality, of joblessness, of underemployment. ~ Avi Lewis

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it came to rest. Idle men and idle plant were an aberration, a wholly temporary failing. Keynes showed that the modern economy could as well find its equilibrium with continuing, serious unemployment. Its perfectly normal tendency was to what economists have since come to call an underemployment equilibrium. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy. ~ Edmund Phelps

But twentysomethings who hide out in underemployment, especially those who are hiding out because of a lack of confidence, are not serving themselves. ~ Meg Jay

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ~ Julian Bond