The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'
Christina RomerRaising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
Christina RomerA natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.
Christina Romer