Chief among these headwinds is the rise of inequality that…

I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social mobility,since before it was cool.

— Barack Obama

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules…

— Robert Reich

“The inexorable rise of inequality can be countered at the top by higher taxes on the highest earners who have captured so much more…

— Robert J. Gordon

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for…

— Paul Tonko

The German export successes are not the result of some sort of currency manipulation, but of the increased competitiveness of companies. The American growth…

— Wolfgang Schauble

If a new company is formed, it hires people and creates jobs in its community. As it grows, people's opportunities multiply and wages rise.…

— Andrew Yang

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income…

— Raj Chetty

The Supreme Court consistently favors organized money and the political privileges of the corporate class. We have a Senate that is more responsive to…

— Bill Moyers

The latest research on social mobility showed that there's a large aggregate decline in the U.S. in your chances of earning more than your…

— Raj Chetty

“Normally, changes in the average income (total income divided by the total number of people) are not very different from changes in median income…

— Anonymous

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result…

— Barney Frank

In the old 20th-century income distribution system, the shares of income going to capital, mainly in profits, and labor, in wages and non-wage benefits,…

— Guy Standing

Income tax in particular in the United States is concentrated on the top half of the income distribution, and very heavily skewed towards the…

— Judy Woodruff

In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at…

— Bernie Sanders

The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of income distribution…

— Ross Garnaut