As the economy soured in late 2007, so did Simmons's sales.

But without that work force - over 4 percent of the country's workers by some estimates - the economy would sour.

As the economy soured, she watched her mother, now separated, fall further behind on the rent.

It is also unclear whether the new fiscal stability would last if the national economy soured.

These entry-level jobs were among the first to be eliminated when the economy soured, and they have yet to return.

But under block grants, welfare money would not increase as the economy soured.

But the early 1990's, when the economy soured, introduced a new wave of abandonment.

Companies, which cut back travel when the economy soured in the early 1990's, are sending people on the road again.

The problems grew in the late 1980's, when costs soared and the economy soured.

Even if the economy sours, he said, people will still come out to eat.