#recession

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand. ↗

— Peter Welch

#cuts #demand #extension #favor #help

According to research from punchaguywithglasses.com, homeless people are making as much money as most recent college graduates. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#economic-depression #funny #homeless-people #joblessness #recession

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues. ↗

— George Noory

#been #every #grass #grass roots #i

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward. ↗

— Martin O'Malley

#continue #forward #lost #move #move forward

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole. ↗

— Barack Obama

#businesses #demand #economy #further #hole

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession. ↗

— Doug Ose

#clearly #could #drag #economy #effect

There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. ↗

— Robert Reich

#business #cycle #get #hit #like

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#benefits #cutting #economic #entering #europe

If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#austerity #become #due #goes #imposition

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. ↗

— Patti Smith

#across #afghan #agendas #america #board