“Purported labor-market shortages for scientists and engineers are anecdotal and also not supported by the available evidence.”
Harold Salzman, The Chronicle of Higher Education
"Independent subprime lenders should be as carefully supervised as banks and thrifts making prime loans are."
Edward Gramlich, The Washington Examiner
"There's bipartisan agreement that we need to do something about the AMT, but nobody is talking about the hard choices."
Len Burman, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"If you can invest in things that reduce poverty -- things like education and job training, raising the minimum wage and expanding the earned income tax credit -- there might be a big economic return,"
Harry Holzer, The Indianapolis Star
"Gridlock is not necessarily a bad thing. There'd be no more tax cuts and a limit on spending increases."
Roberton Williams, MSNBC.com
"The dilemma that's going to confront the next president ... is the huge fiscal gap in terms of the promised expenditures we're going to make."
Eugene Steuerle, Wall Street Journal
“There isn’t any evidence that people, with the exception of refugees, are coming here to get benefits.”
Randy Capps, The Boston Globe
"We in the District may be exporting the crime problem to our benefit. As it gets ever harder to find affordable housing, our crime numbers are likely to continue getting better."
Caterina G. Roman, The Philadelphia Inquirer
“The juxtaposition of pop culture and Internet culture made a huge difference for the Hurricane Katrina [fundraising] efforts.”
Elizabeth Boris, Marketplace
"By many objective standards, the [state children's health insurance] program could be viewed as a success. But the job isn't finished."
Genevieve Kenney, Bloomberg News
"Massachusetts is the best model we have for health insurance reform. Other states could copy all or parts of it, assuming they're willing to pay the price."
John Holahan, Dallas Morning News
“Right now, we have a system in the US that has about the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world, and we collect relatively little revenue because there's so many loopholes. … It's more complicated than any income tax I know anywhere in the Western world, and it's not really up to the challenges that will be facing us in the decades to come."
Len Burman, Economist.com
"A lot of cities are moving toward mixed income. We know the old model of having poor people stacked upon one another did not work.”
Susan Popkin, The Star-Ledger