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There is certainly the risk of potentially being in a worse off situation than they were, so you go through a big surgery, and then you could very quickly have the cancer come back. – Ankit Bharat	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s still around 4 in 10, but when we started asking this question it was around 8 in 10. people have either realized that specific sectors are worse off, like health care or food distribution. Or they feel that the government has at least partly taken back control of migration by ending free movement from the EU and are more comfortable with it now. – Bobby Duffy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Congress wanted to cover the waterfront and ensure in advance that the secretary had the tools depending on whatever situation he confronted to make sure that student-loan borrowers were n’t going to be left worse off. – Elizabeth Prelogar	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We all know that when the post office is forced to cut hours of operation or delivery routes or lay off workers, the rest of us are worse off, thankfully, for the past few months, Democrats and Republicans have been working together in good faith to reform some of the most troubled parts of Postal Service. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 2 years ago
On one hand, Covid and the accompanying recessions left many people in the Latin American middle class a lot worse off, and people who would not have considered migrating have decided it's a useful option, at the same time, the ease of crossing the border has made some people who have ties to the US decide it's time to come now if they're going to make it. I think both those things are true at the same time. – Andrew Selee	Found on CNN 2 years ago
On one hand, Covid and the accompanying recessions left many people in the Latin American middle class a lot worse off and people who would not have considered migrating have decided it's a useful option, at the same time, the ease of crossing the border has made some people who have ties to United States decide it's time to come now if they're going to make it. I think both those things are true at the same time. – Andrew Selee	Found on CNN 2 years ago
She genuinely was something special and this business as a whole is worse off without her, we never worked more than a 12.5 hour shoot day. That was once. Most days were under 12. – Halyna Hutchins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 Americans left right now. We’ve got 4,400 out, we’re going to leave Americans behind and worse off. – Michael Pregent	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Failing to make these investments at a time of such low interest costs would be a historic missed opportunity that would leave future generations worse off, the White House budget does not make that mistake, and The White House budget investments will pay dividends for generations to come. – Shalanda Young	Found on CNN 2 years ago
After losing their homes, assets and even their jobs, people who were already poor are now even worse off. – Nelson Garcia	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
When you flip your vote a few weeks before the election, the American people see right through it. Vulnerable Republican senators are worse off today no matter how Vulnerable Republican senators voted because Vulnerable Republican senators flip-flopped, vulnerable Republican senators can't hide from all Vulnerable Republican senators votes to repeal the ACA and this new vote only shows Vulnerable Republican senators hypocrisy. – Chuck Schumer	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We added more jobs than most people expected, but the gains really were disproportionately part-time workers, to me that means even if workers are coming back it's to jobs that pay less, and families will be worse off. – Kate Bahn	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are just fine, dandy, we had all of the flu-like symptoms. My wife,Rita, was a little worse off than me. She had a very high temperature. And we were isolated so that we would not give it to anyone else. – Tom Hanks	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
You're worse off than you were before. – Karr Ingham	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
These harsh tactics might work if you're willing to burn down the rest of the party in order to be the last man standing. They might work if you don't worry about leaving Iowa Democratic Party and our politics worse off than how you found Iowa Democratic Party. They might work if you think only you have all the answers and only you are the solution to all our problems. – Elizabeth Warren	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If we reduce carbon emissions in Britain but simply close down our large industries and import the stuff from China instead, then global warming will be worse off, the thing about carbon is it doesn't matter where it's emitted. – Dieter Helm	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everybody, including me, used to think e-cigarettes are like cigarettes but not as bad. If you substitute a few e-cigarettes for cigarettes, you're probably better off, it turns out you're worse off. – Stanton Glantz	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It turns out you're worse off. – Stanton Glantz	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If we get the same result (as the primary) in the October election, the country will be worse off, what's happening with the exchange rate and the collapse of the market is just an example of what will happen. – Jazmin Lia	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think you could cut the pay of CEOs in half, and the economy would be the same size as it was last year, i don't think we have to argue that workers will be more productive, we just have to say that they're going to be better off, and it's hard to see that the firm will be worse off. – Larry Mishel	Found on CNN 4 years ago
People will be worse off if they stop talking about it, people's memories are short, compared to the time scale of climate change. We need to be aware of the disconnect when we communicate about climate change. – Frances Moore	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I've overcome a lot but there are people out there that are worse off than me, and I have to see it that way, i'm doing standup for Netflix, I'm living my life, I'm getting to see my kids grow. There's people out there with nothing to eat, no water. – Tracy Morgan	Found on CNN 6 years ago
This legislation will cut subsidies substantially; millions of people will lose health insurance, but certainly people will be worse off. – Doug Elmendorf	Found on CNN 7 years ago
What he's saying to the world and our own foreign policy establishment is we are not going to adhere to all the beliefs and myths of the last 50 years which is more nukes are bad, less nukes are good, that is not always true, and we are not going to be perusing nuclear reduction agreements with the Russians in the hungry way that Obama did and then end up with little and perhaps making us worse off. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

There is certainly the risk of potentially being in a worse off situation than they were, so you go through a big surgery, and then you could very quickly have the cancer come back.

– Ankit Bharat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s still around 4 in 10, but when we started asking this question it was around 8 in 10. people have either realized that specific sectors are worse off, like health care or food distribution. Or they feel that the government has at least partly taken back control of migration by ending free movement from the EU and are more comfortable with it now.

– Bobby Duffy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Congress wanted to cover the waterfront and ensure in advance that the secretary had the tools depending on whatever situation he confronted to make sure that student-loan borrowers were n’t going to be left worse off.

– Elizabeth Prelogar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We all know that when the post office is forced to cut hours of operation or delivery routes or lay off workers, the rest of us are worse off, thankfully, for the past few months, Democrats and Republicans have been working together in good faith to reform some of the most troubled parts of Postal Service.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On one hand, Covid and the accompanying recessions left many people in the Latin American middle class a lot worse off, and people who would not have considered migrating have decided it's a useful option, at the same time, the ease of crossing the border has made some people who have ties to the US decide it's time to come now if they're going to make it. I think both those things are true at the same time.

– Andrew Selee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On one hand, Covid and the accompanying recessions left many people in the Latin American middle class a lot worse off and people who would not have considered migrating have decided it's a useful option, at the same time, the ease of crossing the border has made some people who have ties to United States decide it's time to come now if they're going to make it. I think both those things are true at the same time.

– Andrew Selee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She genuinely was something special and this business as a whole is worse off without her, we never worked more than a 12.5 hour shoot day. That was once. Most days were under 12.

– Halyna Hutchins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 Americans left right now. We’ve got 4,400 out, we’re going to leave Americans behind and worse off.

– Michael Pregent

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Failing to make these investments at a time of such low interest costs would be a historic missed opportunity that would leave future generations worse off, the White House budget does not make that mistake, and The White House budget investments will pay dividends for generations to come.

– Shalanda Young

Found on CNN
2 years ago

After losing their homes, assets and even their jobs, people who were already poor are now even worse off.

– Nelson Garcia

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

When you flip your vote a few weeks before the election, the American people see right through it. Vulnerable Republican senators are worse off today no matter how Vulnerable Republican senators voted because Vulnerable Republican senators flip-flopped, vulnerable Republican senators can't hide from all Vulnerable Republican senators votes to repeal the ACA and this new vote only shows Vulnerable Republican senators hypocrisy.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We added more jobs than most people expected, but the gains really were disproportionately part-time workers, to me that means even if workers are coming back it's to jobs that pay less, and families will be worse off.

– Kate Bahn

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are just fine, dandy, we had all of the flu-like symptoms. My wife,Rita, was a little worse off than me. She had a very high temperature. And we were isolated so that we would not give it to anyone else.

– Tom Hanks

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

You're worse off than you were before.

– Karr Ingham

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

These harsh tactics might work if you're willing to burn down the rest of the party in order to be the last man standing. They might work if you don't worry about leaving Iowa Democratic Party and our politics worse off than how you found Iowa Democratic Party. They might work if you think only you have all the answers and only you are the solution to all our problems.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If we reduce carbon emissions in Britain but simply close down our large industries and import the stuff from China instead, then global warming will be worse off, the thing about carbon is it doesn't matter where it's emitted.

– Dieter Helm

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Everybody, including me, used to think e-cigarettes are like cigarettes but not as bad. If you substitute a few e-cigarettes for cigarettes, you're probably better off, it turns out you're worse off.

– Stanton Glantz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It turns out you're worse off.

– Stanton Glantz

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If we get the same result (as the primary) in the October election, the country will be worse off, what's happening with the exchange rate and the collapse of the market is just an example of what will happen.

– Jazmin Lia

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think you could cut the pay of CEOs in half, and the economy would be the same size as it was last year, i don't think we have to argue that workers will be more productive, we just have to say that they're going to be better off, and it's hard to see that the firm will be worse off.

– Larry Mishel

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People will be worse off if they stop talking about it, people's memories are short, compared to the time scale of climate change. We need to be aware of the disconnect when we communicate about climate change.

– Frances Moore

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I've overcome a lot but there are people out there that are worse off than me, and I have to see it that way, i'm doing standup for Netflix, I'm living my life, I'm getting to see my kids grow. There's people out there with nothing to eat, no water.

– Tracy Morgan

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This legislation will cut subsidies substantially; millions of people will lose health insurance, but certainly people will be worse off.

– Doug Elmendorf

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What he's saying to the world and our own foreign policy establishment is we are not going to adhere to all the beliefs and myths of the last 50 years which is more nukes are bad, less nukes are good, that is not always true, and we are not going to be perusing nuclear reduction agreements with the Russians in the hungry way that Obama did and then end up with little and perhaps making us worse off.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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