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" Though the National Bureau of Economic Research deemed the recession to have ended in June 2009, to most Americans, that conclusion seems not to square with reality. "
Elaine Chao
Reality
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" European-style interventions to which the Obama administration is inclined will not make America more competitive in the world-wide economy. Such policies will not increase growth, will not decrease unemployment, and will not increase wages for workers. "
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" We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country. "
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" I love working in the garden. "
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" There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them. "
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" America's private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way. "
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" The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth. "
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" I am not seeking any position in a Dole Administration. "
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" When the Smoot-Hawley bill landed on President Herbert Hoover's desk, more than 1,000 economists urged him to veto it. Tragically, the president ignored their pleas. "
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" If we did not have Obamacare, we could've addressed the healthcare crisis in a comprehensive but segmented fashion - meaning that we could have promoted a health savings plan. We could've pushed for tort reform, which added so much more cost to healthcare. "
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" I can tell you I love California - and no more. "
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" Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth. "
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" We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers. "
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" Government at all levels has kicked the fiscal can down the road for far too long. "
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" In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost. "
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" Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned. "
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" Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one. "
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Today
" When there's change, people are always anxious. "
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" We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries. "
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Who
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" While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs. "
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" My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house. "
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Parents
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Sleep
" Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion. "
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Credit
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" Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there. "
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" In campaigns, lots of things will be said, and what they have said about my husband is just simply not true. "
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" In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks. "
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" Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service. "
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" Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world. "
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" Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation. "
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" Smoot and Hawley ginned up The Tariff Act of 1930 to get America back to work after the Stock Market Crash of '29. Instead, it destroyed trade so effectively that by 1932, American exports to Europe were just a third of what they had been in 1929. World trade fell two-thirds as other nations retaliated. Jobs evaporated. "
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Work
World
" The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention. "
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