Robert Reich Growth Quotations

The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. Our problem is lack of good jobs and sufficient growth, and our goal must be to revive both.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth.

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent.

I do think we're in a new era now in which job growth will remain sluggish for quite some time,

It is harder to achieve a balanced life in the year 2001 than it was in the year 1991, ... Ten years of a very solid economy and good economic growth have also created an economy that is more stressful.