Government Quote by Neera Tanden

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

— Noam Chomsky

We got two examples in recent history from this country. One in the '80s under President Reagan. One under President Clinton and the Democratic-controlled…

— Tim Pawlenty

During the 1960s, rising real wages for low-income and high-income workers, due in part to rapid economic growth and the spread of unionization, worked…

— Stephanie Coontz

In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.

— Edward Conard

I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America,…

— Geoff Mulgan

For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since…

— Robert H. Frank

“in 1960, 18 percent of our national income was spent on food while 5 percent was spent on health care. Today 9 percent of…

— Kris Carr

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system,…

— Fareed Zakaria

“Without Social Security, the official U.S. poverty rate among the aged would jump from 9 percent to nearly 50 percent—about the same rate as…

— David Cay Johnston

Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care.

— Phil Bredesen

In several quarters in the 2000s, if you added up all the private savings of everyone in the United States, it was less than…

— Austan Goolsbee

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in…

— Lauren Greenfield