Jean Ross Quotations

A lot of people are struggling to get by.

The bottom-line difficulty is that many low-income folks don't have money to save, even if they desperately want to.

People have different ideas of what a loophole is. To bring in a lot of money, it has to affect a large number of people and that amounts to a significant tax increase on those people.

The longer I look at the measure, the more I think I don't really know what would be happening.

You could end up in a situation where the fund is up against the cap for several years running and there builds up a large reserve.

We're looking at something that is one step above a bare-bones budget,

There is a wage premium in the Bay Area. The critical question, however, is whether that premium is sufficient to offset the higher cost of living here.

We can't really say what benefit the state and local areas have gotten from a billion-and-a-half-dollar tax break.

You had both Republicans and Democrats saying we need to balance the budget. How can we afford to do this? It really did come down to a matter of priorities. I think the process worked.

The size and scope of the current program undermines its intent.