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The reality is that you’re getting a narrower, narrower and narrower buying pool that actually can afford to buy new vehicles. – Jonathan Smoke	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Most people avoid you because they can’t afford you. – Jachi Michael	added by Seanbean 1 year ago
With my salary, which is higher than the average salary in Lisbon, I cannot afford renting a flat because it’s too expensive. – Nuncio Renzi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The three things that every school leader better pay a lot of attention to is we have limited time, energy and budget for safety, so we can’t afford to waste any of that. We can’t spend our budget or training time on something that we don’t have pretty good evidence actually bears fruit. With the caution that nothing’s going to be 100 percent. This idea that we’re gonna stop all school shootings; there’s just, no country has been able to do that. – Michael Dorn	Found on CNN 1 year ago
If i quit alcohol and cigarettes, i would be able to afford the things i enjoy in life, like smoking and drinking – John Allston	added by jampot59x 1 year ago
That type of scorched earth policy is going to destroy conservative talk in Florida in the meantime, i work for a privately owned broadcasting group that will not be able to afford a barrage of lawsuits before we wait for it to go before the Supreme Court. – Dave Heller	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I got accepted into schools that I wanted to go to, but I couldn’t afford to go to them because papa died. – Joshua Fletcher	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Fed needs to secure both price stability and financial stability, something that it has failed to so recently, having already dug itself, and the US economy, into a big hole with its prolonged mischaracterization of inflation and flip-flopping policies, it can ill afford another slippage in what is proving to be the biggest policy mistake in the last four decades. – Jerome Powell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A number of animals are being abandoned that have serious medical issues, the only thing we can guess is that people just ca n’t afford those expenses, and they’re hoping by dropping off [ their pets ] at our facility that we’re going to be able to pick up the slack. And we do as best we can, but it’s really putting a strain on our resources. – Joe Labriola	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The goal is for our collective programs to help more and more people better afford their insulin. – Allison Schneider	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These are the folks who can least afford this type of hardship. – Luis Alejo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
And price: If you simply can’t afford the out-of-pocket costs of health care in the United States, and assuming the risks involved, it may make much more sense for you financially to travel outside the United States. – Elizabeth Ziemba	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Builders build and make dreams a reality, but this plan looks like a stretch because the country cannot afford to undertake massive new projects when the national debt is over $31 trillion, there are some interesting ideas here, but this is not the right time for bold plans that dream big. There’s no money left in Uncle Sam’s till to pay for big dreams and daring projects. – Chris Rupkey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was just something that happened suddenly and jarringly to families that are already struggling to afford the basic essentials of life, like rent and gasoline and health care and, of course, food. – Vince Hall	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is still a large chunk of new construction homes currently under construction, and when those homes hit the market, especially over the next few months, we will see spring home buyers – those who can afford the higher new construction price tags – having more options and opportunities to break into homeownership. – Nicole Bachaud	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Even in cases where White children or White families rather could not afford to attend the school, they even charged as little as a dollar to allow White students to attend school, now, for the Black community – something totally different for the Black community. There were no forms of public schooling. – Dawn Williams	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This one percentage point reduction in rates can allow as many as three million more mortgage-ready consumers to qualify and afford a $400,000 loan, which is the median home price. – Freddie Mac	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The world and the country can’t afford to develop that oil. – Jeremy Lieb	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The unions have been clear from our very first bargaining session that a dollar in the first year is not enough, a dollar does not afford Disney workers with the ability to keep up with the skyrocketing rent increases. And a dollar does not afford Disney workers with the ability to continue to purchase basic necessities, such as food, gas and utilities. – Matt Hollis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The spotlight is hot, you ca n’t afford to lose a case like this right ? – Robert James	Found on CNN 1 year ago
One of the things that Secretary Austin has been very focused on is that we should not be providing the Ukrainians systems they can’t repair, they can’t sustain, and that they over the long term can’t afford because it’s not helpful, and this isn’t about a news cycle or what’s symbolically valuable, it’s what will actually help Ukraine on the battlefield. – Colin Kahl	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We kind of both just were like, ‘can you afford to live alone?’ So it was like an immediate connection on that one. We were really fortunate to find a place pretty quickly. – Summer Lee	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am the daughter of a woman who at 61 has given so much to this country and is a minimum-wage worker that can’t afford health care, so she’s on Medicaid, and diabetic, i am the daughter of a man who spent 30 years working in an industrial bakery, a union busting company, and the day he retired, he got a frozen pie. He didn’t get a retirement pension and he struggled with Medicare supplemental, covering the cost. – Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These folks live in an episode of The West Wing, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, can’t afford medical treatment, and are struggling to put food on the table. No, Liz ‘I voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act’ Cheney should not be speaker. Ever. – Nina Turner	Found on FOX News 1 year ago

The reality is that you’re getting a narrower, narrower and narrower buying pool that actually can afford to buy new vehicles.

– Jonathan Smoke

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Most people avoid you because they can’t afford you.

– Jachi Michael

added by Seanbean
1 year ago

With my salary, which is higher than the average salary in Lisbon, I cannot afford renting a flat because it’s too expensive.

– Nuncio Renzi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The three things that every school leader better pay a lot of attention to is we have limited time, energy and budget for safety, so we can’t afford to waste any of that. We can’t spend our budget or training time on something that we don’t have pretty good evidence actually bears fruit. With the caution that nothing’s going to be 100 percent. This idea that we’re gonna stop all school shootings; there’s just, no country has been able to do that.

– Michael Dorn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If i quit alcohol and cigarettes, i would be able to afford the things i enjoy in life, like smoking and drinking

– John Allston

added by jampot59x
1 year ago

That type of scorched earth policy is going to destroy conservative talk in Florida in the meantime, i work for a privately owned broadcasting group that will not be able to afford a barrage of lawsuits before we wait for it to go before the Supreme Court.

– Dave Heller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I got accepted into schools that I wanted to go to, but I couldn’t afford to go to them because papa died.

– Joshua Fletcher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Fed needs to secure both price stability and financial stability, something that it has failed to so recently, having already dug itself, and the US economy, into a big hole with its prolonged mischaracterization of inflation and flip-flopping policies, it can ill afford another slippage in what is proving to be the biggest policy mistake in the last four decades.

– Jerome Powell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A number of animals are being abandoned that have serious medical issues, the only thing we can guess is that people just ca n’t afford those expenses, and they’re hoping by dropping off [ their pets ] at our facility that we’re going to be able to pick up the slack. And we do as best we can, but it’s really putting a strain on our resources.

– Joe Labriola

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The goal is for our collective programs to help more and more people better afford their insulin.

– Allison Schneider

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are the folks who can least afford this type of hardship.

– Luis Alejo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

And price: If you simply can’t afford the out-of-pocket costs of health care in the United States, and assuming the risks involved, it may make much more sense for you financially to travel outside the United States.

– Elizabeth Ziemba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Builders build and make dreams a reality, but this plan looks like a stretch because the country cannot afford to undertake massive new projects when the national debt is over $31 trillion, there are some interesting ideas here, but this is not the right time for bold plans that dream big. There’s no money left in Uncle Sam’s till to pay for big dreams and daring projects.

– Chris Rupkey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was just something that happened suddenly and jarringly to families that are already struggling to afford the basic essentials of life, like rent and gasoline and health care and, of course, food.

– Vince Hall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is still a large chunk of new construction homes currently under construction, and when those homes hit the market, especially over the next few months, we will see spring home buyers – those who can afford the higher new construction price tags – having more options and opportunities to break into homeownership.

– Nicole Bachaud

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even in cases where White children or White families rather could not afford to attend the school, they even charged as little as a dollar to allow White students to attend school, now, for the Black community – something totally different for the Black community. There were no forms of public schooling.

– Dawn Williams

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This one percentage point reduction in rates can allow as many as three million more mortgage-ready consumers to qualify and afford a $400,000 loan, which is the median home price.

– Freddie Mac

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The world and the country can’t afford to develop that oil.

– Jeremy Lieb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The unions have been clear from our very first bargaining session that a dollar in the first year is not enough, a dollar does not afford Disney workers with the ability to keep up with the skyrocketing rent increases. And a dollar does not afford Disney workers with the ability to continue to purchase basic necessities, such as food, gas and utilities.

– Matt Hollis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The spotlight is hot, you ca n’t afford to lose a case like this right ?

– Robert James

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the things that Secretary Austin has been very focused on is that we should not be providing the Ukrainians systems they can’t repair, they can’t sustain, and that they over the long term can’t afford because it’s not helpful, and this isn’t about a news cycle or what’s symbolically valuable, it’s what will actually help Ukraine on the battlefield.

– Colin Kahl

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We kind of both just were like, ‘can you afford to live alone?’ So it was like an immediate connection on that one. We were really fortunate to find a place pretty quickly.

– Summer Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am the daughter of a woman who at 61 has given so much to this country and is a minimum-wage worker that can’t afford health care, so she’s on Medicaid, and diabetic, i am the daughter of a man who spent 30 years working in an industrial bakery, a union busting company, and the day he retired, he got a frozen pie. He didn’t get a retirement pension and he struggled with Medicare supplemental, covering the cost.

– Raul Juarez/Congresswoman-Elect Dlia Ramirez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These folks live in an episode of The West Wing, while 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, can’t afford medical treatment, and are struggling to put food on the table. No, Liz ‘I voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act’ Cheney should not be speaker. Ever.

– Nina Turner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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