Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack points out that agriculture is one of the few major areas of the economy with a trade surplus.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

He says he does not expect an increase in domestic killings as a result of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

But health spending has rocketed over the past generation to about seventeen percent of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

But even after the economy recovers, the deficit is around four percent of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

The weak job market has not only hurt spending, the lifeblood of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

It also predicts for this year the biggest deficit, as a share of the economy, since World War Two: one trillion seven hundred fifty billion dollars.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

But,because of the economy, employers reduced the number of internships available by twenty-one percent.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

Health care spending represents nearly seventeen percent of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Also,forty-nine percent disapproved of the president's handling of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

The budget deficit is about twelve percent of the economy.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

"Our country's too big, too complicated, too decentralized for Washington, a few of us here, just to write a few rules about remaking seventeen percent of the economy all at once."

VOA: special.2010.02.27

Health care is one-sixth of the economy.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Clive Randall,president of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam, says the government responded aggressively to take control of the economy.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

And for South Korea, where exports are the backbone of the economy, being well regarded abroad is all the more important.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05