Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our prowess in providing better tools to address diseases of poverty is one of the best forms of foreign aid.
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy.
In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.
Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?
An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.
We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.
As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.
Small businesses drive this economy and it is unacceptable that the President's budget proposal does not give them the tools they need to be successful.
A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries.
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.
When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.
Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.
Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.
