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 * Quotes**

1. Now the alchemy is coming undone; unpaid debts are revealing themselves to be unpayable. []

2. "The recession has plunged 2.6 million more Americans into poverty, wiped out the household income gains of an entire decade and pushed the number of people without health insurance up to 46.3 million," report Carol Morello and Dan Keating. []

3. In 2008, 39.8 million Americans were living in poverty, which is $22,025 a year for a family of four. We haven't seen that many poor people since 1960 and it's because many people have shifted from full-time employment to part-time.

4. Mr. Stephenson a CEO at AT&T said he doesn't see significant changes until the second half of 2010. Although AT&T did see a rise in consumer revenue beginning in the second quarter, he hesitated to call it a turning point. []

5. The question is of special concern as the U.S. government borrows heavily to pull the economy out of recession -- according to some estimates, nearly $2 trillion in fiscal 2009, which ends this month, and perhaps $1 trillion in fiscal 2010. []

6. "There may be political issues, but underlying all that is...a social crisis, which began with the food prices, the fuel prices. Now they face financial crisis" says, Donald Kaberuka Head of the African Development Bank. []

7. When discussing the bail-out plan Obama says, "But given the situation we're facing, not passing a bill now will cost these Americans much more later", Calling for a bipartisan commission to oversee the plan. []