Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
Eugene "Gene" B. Sperlingis an American economist, who was Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 December 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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We're not gonna put WTO conditions on China that have never been put on any other country before.
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We want to provide an incentive for the auto industry and the American consumer to produce and purchase the cars of the future.
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We're in a very deep hole on job market, ... We've had a couple of steps in the right direction, but we have a lot farther to dig ourselves out.
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One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are making the choice of whether to send their girls to school. And they are struggling with lack of water, lack of firewood, and lack of care for their youngest children. And those burdens fall on the girls.
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There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
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You never see a child die from education on TV. But make no mistake about it: children die from lack of education all the time. Children without an education are more likely to grow up to have HIV/AIDS. They're more likely to die in infancy or before the age of five.
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A tax cut that is $800 billion or $500 billion is an irresponsible tax cut that would threaten our ability to pay down the debt, secure Medicare, Social Security and education, ... Fox News Sunday.
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A down payment by the United States of $1 billion would provide further momentum. This down payment would make it possible for more than 10 million children to go to school and ensure that our country is contributing at least as much as the United Kingdom.
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This is about fiscal discipline and first things first,
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They're trying to turn their focus on cuts to important domestic programs that weren't even part of the problem.
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I would say the question is not whether we're going to have growth or productivity, because I believe we will have both, but whether or not that will lead to a strengthening of the middle class or a hollowing out of the middle class.
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President Bush takes the credit for a 'shallow recession,' he denies any responsibility for an even 'more shallow' economic recovery.
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but I'm actually quite confident that we will iron it out and ? that we will have a more formal agreement quite soon.
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If you care about progress in market opening, you are going to have to have more ambitious compacts for sharing the downside costs as well as the benefits of open trade, ... As economists, we talk about how the benefits of lower prices are broadly shared. But the costs are very heavily concentrated.