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How to use the word trickle-down in a Sentence?

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Folks, it’s the same old trickle-down dressed up in MAGA clothing, only worse.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
11 months ago

In an economy that's 60 % driven by services, you can see how easily that outlook on spending in a narrow group of income earners has a bigger effect on a larger group of Americans, this is the definition of trickle-down.

Marvin Loh

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The national issues got trickled down on some of the local elections, i still think there is a Democratic base here and a lot of support for a good Democrat. But the national issues now trickle down locally and that never happened before.

Dan Polivka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The work that we've been doing really shows that, in fact, these claims -- or this idea of trickle-down economics -- does not pass the scrutiny of data, key lessons from the past 40 years of data is that the cuts in top tax rates have not triggered prosperity for all, as they were supposed to trigger.

Lucas Chancel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Trickle-down economics has never worked and it's time to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out.

Biden White

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These measures are not likely to trickle down to people in the informal sector.

Muda Yusuf

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It definitely does start at the top, seeing those changes at the top is the most important lesson that we can teach the company at scale, and then obviously those kinds of things trickle down.

Jeremi Gorman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The retailers are scared that the consumer is not going to be able to afford products so it's a trickle-down effect. And the cost of crib, or a child's bed or car-seat or bassinet is going up by 25%, if not more. The average middle American can't afford it.

Delta Children president

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It’s a trickle-down effect, when the casinos are doing well the city does well—from the mom and pop shops to the summer employees.

Ken Parnell

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Without question, when you have a pricey sale in the neighborhood, there is a halo effect, that does trickle down.

Mickey Conlon

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The good thing is that it gives more residents the chance to make elected people more responsible, more accountable, but the risk is that this could be a slippery slope—other cities can do this, and the change could trickle down beyond College Park to counties and states, and it could even become a national issue –that’s the risk I was feeling.

College Park Councilmember Fazlul Kabir

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

With the White House and Congress in Republican hands, we need a strong, experienced and energetic leader who will take the fight for our democratic values on the Ways and Means Committee to the American people. Over the next two years, many of America’s toughest policy decisions will play out in this committee. The change we seek is not the change that Republicans plan. The Republican Majority threatens to bury the Affordable Care Act, privatize Medicare and Social Security and turn our tax code into the textbook for ‘trickle-down economics.’.

Xavier Becerra

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When Republicans controlled the White House, their trickle-down approach drove our economy to the brink of a collapse, after President Obama was elected, Republicans made it their number one goal to block him at every turn. That unprecedented obstruction these last eight years is their legacy, and the American people should reject it by electing Hillary Clinton to build on President Obama's success so we can all grow and succeed together.

Angel Urena

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you put toys down in front of kids and don't give them labels, they'll play with all of them and I think some companies are finally becoming aware of that, i think the way we market items has changed and will continue to change to be inclusive, but the trickle down from our media plays a big role. More women in lead roles mean more toys of women. And everyone is allowed to play with them.

Jill Pantozzi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If prices are lower, the burden on taxpayers is going to be lower, it's also going to trickle down to the copays and costs of what people pay for pharmaceuticals.

Michael Weinstein

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You could see on that stage in Las Vegas how we are maybe approaching these problems with different solutions, but we're both seeing the pressures that American families are under and the challenges that they're facing, we're not peddling the same old failed policies of trickle-down economics and let the corporations do what they want and cut taxes on the wealthy.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Trickle-down economics has to be one of the worst ideas of the 1980s, it is right up there with New Coke, shoulder pads and big hair.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

One thing that you have to watch for is people just tacking the words poverty and inequality onto a pre-existing agenda that has very little to do with addressing those problems, for the most part, I hear lots of the same trickle-down economics that helped to get us into this mess in the first place.

Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You've essentially cut your revenue stream in half in terms of oil revenues, that will have important repercussions and it will trickle down through all parts of the economy though we are most concerned about investment.

Pedro Antunes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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