To date, the increasing affordability of our key product categories and the strength of our retail team have enabled us to grow our business despite macro-economic factors such as rising gas prices,
Quotes about affordability (16 Quotes)
The only possible role that I can see for reconciliation would be to make modest changes in the major package to improve affordability, to deal with what share of Medicaid expansion the federal government pays, those kinds of issues, which is the traditional role for reconciliation in health care.
Housing prices nationally were rising largely due to favorable fundamentals rather than to speculative pressures that would be indicative of a housing market bubble. However, the situation seems to have changed recently. Affordability has deteriorated significantly in the second and third quarters of 2005 as housing price increases have spiked higher. As a result, affordability is quickly closing the gap relative to this measure's long-run historical average.
It's all about affordability, ... Health care costs ... will continue to have an impact, even if the economy strengthens.
What Tucson has is demographics and geographies. We're next door to California. The commercial markets sometimes mirror the residential markets when you talk about affordability. There's a little bit of risk, but every buyer has a little bit of different risk tolerance. If you have the ability to hold an empty building for a little while, you're going to be fine.
I'm delighted to hear that there's some moderation in the rate of growth, and I hope we can sustain that, ... There's a deep and growing public anxiety about affordability, and we in higher education must be sensitive to it.
Being named a great school at a great price means that we offer both high-quality academic programs and real affordability for families. We offer a personal touch that's hard to match at a big school but without a big price tag.
Starting at about 9 a port, our new small business solution switches provide just what our resellers and business customers have been asking for speed, affordability, configurability and ease of use.
Many significant Energy Department issues face us at this time, ranging from the adequacy of supply, to affordability, to the development of new technologies, to the issue of security at our facilities and more, ... I look forward to helping the president-elect effectively address these challenges in the days ahead.
A combination of factors -- excellent housing affordability conditions and a strong desire by consumers to buy -- are keeping the market incredibly strong, ... The months ahead look very promising.
We all are equally responsible for the rates, all four of us - not that that makes rates acceptable to anybody, ... But (insurance regulator) Kevin McCarty has to balance two conflicting areas, affordability and accessibility. If government mandates affordability, suddenly there will be no availability.
While the athletic footwear giants are breaking the bank with their new technology-driven footwear, today's consumers are also looking for fashionable functionality and affordability in all of their shoes. Many urban styles are evolving into a classier and dressier look, and comfort-wear consumers are looking for additions like ornaments and textures, whatever will make their shoes a unique expression of their own evolving sense of style.
The inventory of unsold homes has been building in the past four or five months - which is not surprising, as affordability has gotten stretched and stretched, and creative financing has grown more absurd.
You don't need an agreement with us. We want to be chosen for our quality, accessibility and affordability.
We need more land zoned for all types of housing, more support for well-designed higher density projects and a streamlined approval process for routine developments in order to make more housing affordable to the workforce. Affordability begins with availability.
The challenge in policymaking is to take all the steps we can to help avoid unnecessary costs, to help people save money, to drive costs down wherever possible. That's the way to have both affordability and better and better health care.