16 Quotes by Jean Ross

We're going to put together a corrected list that will run in the newspaper.

We're looking at something that is one step above a bare-bones budget,

Over time you should ramp down the program in size.

People have different ideas of what a loophole is. To bring in a lot of money, it has to affect a large number of people and that amounts to a significant tax increase on those people.

There is a wage premium in the Bay Area. The critical question, however, is whether that premium is sufficient to offset the higher cost of living here.

We can't really say what benefit the state and local areas have gotten from a billion-and-a-half-dollar tax break.

The program is just too large and isn't reaching the communities, businesses and workers it was created to target.

You had both Republicans and Democrats saying we need to balance the budget. How can we afford to do this? It really did come down to a matter of priorities. I think the process worked.

What's troubling about the economic recovery that we've been in is that all of the traditional indicators of employment, household income and poverty levels are lagging behind prior expansions.