#billion

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#american #billion #depression #different #during

Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#american lives #billion #came #caused #claimed

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#company #does #dollars #experience #quarter

We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#also #billion #breaks #certainly #could

Commodity prices are at a record high. In 1933, the world's population was just over 2 billion people. Today, there are 7 billion mouths to feed - many of them depending on American agriculture. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#american #billion #commodity #depending #feed

Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity? ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#average #billion #cost #europe #euros

What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#billions #daily #find #funds #here

During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#aircraft #billion #developing #during #european

And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#forget #let us #me #much #recent

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care. ↗

— Doc Hastings

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