Financial Hardship Quotes
The salaries of public official in India were then and still are quite low.
Statement made in response to Jimmy Carter's technical arguments about the economy at a Teamsters convention in Ohio.
The Arab countries (with the exception of Jordan) did not allow the Palestinian refugees to work or to establish their own factories or to accept economic development. Any semblance of independence would, the Arab leaders thought, remove pressure to have the refugees returned to Israel. In contrast, hundreds of thousands of Jews were forcibly expelled from the Arab countries and all those refugees who went to Israel were given citizenship and absorbed into the economy and culture.
Uchitelle in writing about one of the nation’s economic recessions thought that it should be an interesting slant to do an article about Harvard alumni who had been laid off to show that education and training were not sufficient to have job security. Lelyveld, one of the greatest newspaper editors in the history of American journalism had also been a Harvard graduate.
What was so unusual about Mrs. Roosevelt was that she came from a very wealthy, upper class, family. She never had to work a day in her life; nor did the men in her family. Yet she learned about, understood, and empathized with the poor and their problems in a way that few “aristocrats” and politicians ever did.
