There's an overall pessimism about the economy. This split suggests one of two things: either Washington's doing a poor job of communicating the economy's underlying strength, or the media are doing a poor job of reporting on it.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it

These patterns combined with poor fuel economy in our cars makes transportation the biggest and fastest-growing contributor to global warming. Any meaningful effort to address global warming must include forward-thinking transportation and smart growth solutions.

In many ways what's been happening in the economy hits them (working poor families) the worst. Those with higher incomes are more likely to have employer-provided insurance. And many lower-income (people) have Medicaid to fall back. For that in-between group, there's nothing.

Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will always be considerable, either because taxes cannot touch those who vote for them or because they are asse

You go over to our diamond case and there are hundreds of rings in there. The poor guy is absolutely at sea if he doesn't have some kind of direction from his girlfriend.