Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs.

People aren't fighting over scarce housing or lucrative jobs. They are befriending one another, sharing information, and accumulating status, points, and experiences.

Resources are scarce.

Our resources are scarce.

Little wonder, then, that ordinary citizens consider a recession over only when the economy has returned to normal, which means that incomes are rising and jobs are no longer desperately scarce.

The scarce participation of women in salaried work is also explained due to low levels of education, which limits their participation in formal jobs.

The industries of the future, which will create jobs that last, are those that will use scarce resources efficiently, and that can pay the real environmental and health costs of the resources that they use.

Things have value when they are both desirable and scarce.

Other than peat, dolomite, and limestone, natural resources are scarce.

Yet many young people are ill prepared for secondary school, and places are scarce.

Both are important, and both require allocation of scarce resources that are increasingly hard to acquire.

But even the scarce ingredients they have managed to find are running out.

The cost of new stadiums and the accompanying infrastructure have certainly created jobs, but they have also redirected scarce funds away from such basic needs as education, healthcare and better transit.

We humans are very good at figuring out ways to make scarce things desirable.

Farmers living in areas where food security and resources are scarce lack financial capital.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

To me, useless jobs are, well, useless.

There are no stupid jobs, there are only stupid people.

When private jobs are no longer competitive, government jobs seem an easy solution to keeping people employed.

When food is scarce, people share.

At the same time, the new information technology makes us more aware that the kinds of jobs that are migrating to India and China are high quality jobs, the jobs for educated and skilled people.

Most of our countries are ill equipped, because of scarce resources, to defend themselves against such encroachments.

Meanwhile, young people worldwide are struggling to find jobs.

These jobs are strenuous, labour intensive and time consuming.

In some cases, Gülen finds that proponents of green jobs have not distinguished between construction jobs (building the wind turbines), which are temporary, and longer term operational jobs (keeping the wind turbines going), which are more permanent.

It is not just that global supplies of resources are increasingly scarce, but also that supplies are increasingly falling into inefficient hands.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

It means that the economy is dividing into high skill, high wage jobs and low skill, low wage jobs and that the middle, the middle skill jobs, and the middle earning jobs, are starting to drop out of the economy.

The potential winners, meanwhile, are creating the jobs of tomorrow.

Such jobs are a liability for society, not an asset.

Women, nowadays, are more likely to occupy top political jobs.

Many say that they are afraid of losing their jobs.

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

Some things are useful, but not scarce enough to have monetary value, such as the Earth's atmosphere, these are referred to as 'free goods'.

Canada believes we must refocus our energy on this issue to ensure that scarce humanitarian resources are indeed being allocated where needs are greatest.

Of course, this is a fallacy when resources are scarce, but even economists never thought that growth would continue forever.

When resources are scarce, or so degraded that they can no longer sustain livelihoods, or inequitably distributed, conflict invariably ensues.

Women account for the majority of the unemployed right now, and if women do have jobs, the jobs are in low paying sectors.

Firms are cutting jobs because there is not enough final demand.

We are creating jobs to reduce the number of our poor.

Growth creates jobs, and jobs reduce poverty.

Conflict is increasing as communities compete for scarce resources.

This would help reduce consumption of scarce natural resources.