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Alice Rivlin Inspirational Quotes (8)

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The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.
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The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
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Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.
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One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates. [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.
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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
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If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
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Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
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most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
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