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New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.
Letitia James
Progress
Leader
Nation
Our
Ours
Thousand
City
Shades
New
Accents
Because
Built
Quest
Celebrated
Labor
York
New York
Different
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Happiness
Dream
Oneself
Excellence
Without
Labor
Cannot
Either
Usefulness
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.
Linda Chavez
Truth
Truth Is
Money
Pay
Unions
Spend
Say
Claim
Sector
Laws
Employment
Forced
How
Dues
Private
Condition
Labor
Stacked
Against
Public
Little
Deck
Them
Workers
Union
Many
Public Sector
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.
Linda Sanchez
Work
People
Work Hard
Sometimes
Sense
Enough
Definitely
Members
General
Feel
Like
Because
Labor
Want
Poor
Working
Hard
Working People
Working-Class
Union
Specifically
The stones in your driveway may have come from the slaves who spend all day breaking rocks because it's cheaper for the company to get them from India, where the labor is free. We are all connected. And we all have human value. That's what my work is about.
Lisa Kristine
Work
Day
Value
Free
Spend
All Day
India
About
Driveway
Cheaper
Come
Because
Rocks
Labor
Get
Stones
May
Human
Where
Breaking
Them
Your
Who
Connected
Company
Slaves
Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.
Louis Navellier
Work
People
Benefits
Demanding
Few
Other
Worn
Out
Mining
Security
Give
Physically
Through
Factory
Were
Years
Labor
Social
Modest
Bodies
Coal
Social Security
Whose
Designed
I think the gains to be achieved by a combination of reforms and labor market adjustments are going to be more permanent and will provide a basis for reducing unemployment and improving export performance, and sustaining growth, in a way that is more sound and permanent.
Lucas Papademos
Will
Think
Market
Way
Adjustment
More
Performance
Combination
Permanent
Sound
Reducing
Provide
Labor
Unemployment
Improving
Reforms
Going
Achieved
Sustaining
Gains
Export
Growth
Basis
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Lucy Larcom
Work
Enthusiasm
Otherwise
Aim
Neither
He
Puts
Faithfulness
His
Itself
Labor
Privilege
Laborer
Which
Elevating
Ennoble
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
Ludwig von Mises
Peace
Society
Preserved
Lasting
Lasting Peace
Only
Division
Conditions
Labor
Modern
Modern Society
Based
Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.
Luis Fortuno
Opportunity
Become
Shine
Doors
Increasingly
Market
Our
Opens
Provides
Labor
Children
Successful
Competitive
I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.
Lupe Ontiveros
Country
Those
Proud
Labor
Hands
Represent
Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.
Madeleine M. Kunin
Work
Women
Economic
Longer
Fair
Force
Issue
Nor
Labor
Fundamental
Treatment
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
Maika Monroe
Day
Labor Day
Challenge
Athlete
See
Kite
Excited
Balancing
Still
Labor
Being
Movie
Happens
While
Boarding
Working
Kate
Actress
The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.
Marc Morial
Work
Business
People
Community
Congress
President
State
State Legislature
City
City Council
Able
Variety
Council
Got
His
Governor
Labor
Closely
Legislature
Mayor
Order
Business Community
Wide
Wide Variety
There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.
Marc Racicot
Age
Political
Group
Every
Other
Jobs
Volunteer
Campaigns
Very
Labor
American
Intensive
Dependent
Age Group
Younger
Many
We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.
Mariano Rajoy
Confidence
Change
Deficit
Laws
Restructure
Economic
Economic Policy
Investment
Policy
Labor
Reform
Public
Taxation
Cut
Create
Foster
When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.
Mark McKinnon
You
Money
Unions
Spent
Adjusted
Look
Exempt
Democrats
Disclosure
Surprise
Labor
Crafted
Bill
The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen.
Martin Filler
Benefits
Financial
Building
Machine
Some
Costs
Never
Although
Advocate
Reduced
Still
Been
Labor
Any
Craftsmen
Depends
Predicted
Skilled
Manufacturing
Large
Assembly
Extent
Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
Mary Harris Jones
Work
Struggle
Better
Own
Everywhere
Out
Must
Disadvantage
Advantage
Arizona
Came
Conditions
Labor
Times
Salvation
Work Out
Workers
Who
When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.
Mary Lyon
You
Else
Willing
Nobody
Nobody Else
Go
Labor
Where
Fields
Your
Choose
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
Mary McCarthy
Life
Naked
State
Completed
Destroyed
Finishes
Consumed
Never
Most
House
Labor
Begun
Process
Again
Toil
Moment
Keeping
The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being exploited. So to restore dignity to work, we must control immigration.
Matteo Salvini
Work
Dignity
Problem
Immigration
Control
Market
Out-Of-Control
Must
Restore
Because
Italians
Italy
Labor
Being
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Exploited
Workers
Illegal
Who
Compete
Damages
Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.
Matthew Desmond
Health
People
Mental Health
Cause
Job
Big
Lose
Market
Impacts
Mental
Footing
Because
Loss
Labor
Event
Stressful
Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut down the Fed and its ability to distort the economy, penalizing labor, or make the Fed's distortions available to all businesses and all workers.
Max Keiser
People
Money
Law
Down
Distort
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Ability
Fed
Supply
Idea
Economy
Make
Tie
Wage
Labor
Against
Available
Then
Workers
Businesses
Shut
I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.
Melanie Mayron
Love
You
Past
Think
Some
Directed
Know
Still
Labor
In The Past
Movies
Whole
Thing
China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.
Michael Bloomberg
Markets
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Costs
Factories
Investing
Because
Labor
Closer
Want
China
Lower
Europe
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