Elizabeth Warren

I'm pleased that the IRS is including another study as part of its national research program.

I think we are very lucky to have someone of your talents and experience who is willing to serve in this job.

I understand that you are the lead technical advisor for the research study on the underground economy that's been commissioned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

I understand that you're a proponent of trying to use objective data to guide enforcement policies.

Then I will just say I am pleased to join my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in calling for this commonsense delay which will give FEMA time to get this right. I thank Senator Landrieu for her leadership, and I thank Senators…

When we look at data like this and we see that just cleaning up the environment means that we cut visits to the emergency room for children with asthma from 80 percent to 20 percent, that is not only economically sound.

I would like to go back to a point that, I think, several of you have emphasized, and that is one way to decrease the health disparities between high-income and low-income people is to look at the environments around them.

We can do this in the United States. We have little pockets of where we have begun to build on the research.

A lot of the socioeconomic problems that we are talking about here would be powerfully addressed by improving the educational success of our young people.

The virtuous circle instead of the vicious cycle.

Not only are the data systems, we just need the dollars to invest in research and understanding what are the most important factors.

We are talking about creating a permanent social stratification in our society which is socially unstable, politically unstable, and economically damaging for our country.

What it means to Senator Sanders' point is that our children that are growing up under these conditions--we are raising a generation that is going to be sicker.

Let us start with the trend lines; where we are heading right now.

The lower people's income, the earlier they die and the sicker they live.

Healthy people have stable, safe, clean housing.

We have held back on the investments in these data systems that, I think, would help explain much more what is going on in America.

This trend of increasing income inequality and decreasing median household income has been going on for some years now. It is getting worse.

So there is one strategy. We multiply Barbara times 100.

We used to be the most educated population post-World War II. Now our seniors are the most educated seniors in the world, but our young people are falling behind.

We seem to be caught in a vicious cycle here.

If those are not the investments we are willing to make, what kind of a people are we? We have opportunities here. We just have to seize them.

We are raising a generation that is going to be sicker.

It is so serious, and frankly no one gives it the attention that it needs.

The difference between a 6.5 percent unemployment rate and an unemployment rate between 5 percent and 6 percent is hundreds of thousands of jobs.