The tech-driven economy leads to a two-tier job market…

“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results…

— Charles Moore

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the…

— George Orwell

“The economic consequences of these policies have been the same just about everywhere, and exactly what one would expect: a massive increase in social…

— Noam Chomsky

“Conant was concerned that the “particular functions” that might be assigned to young people would be dictated by the economic conditions of their families,…

— Michael S. Roth

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to…

— Lewis Mumford

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and…

— Ban Ki-moon

“… our nation's truly critical problems are built into the very structure of the economic and political system; they are not something passing in…

— Gar Alperovitz

The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to…

— Stephanie Coontz

Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of…

— William H. Sylvis

Every dollar that the boss did not work for, one of us worked for a dollar and didn't get it.

— William C. Dudley

Man must choose whether to be rich in things or in the freedom to use them.

— Ivan Illich

“We also need to understand that white supremacy is at the heart of the problem—not just a racially associated economic inequality.”

— Becky Bond

Solving the population problem is not going to solve the problems of racism, of sexism, of religious intolerance, of war, of gross economic inequality.…

— Paul R. Ehrlich

God, how patient are Thy poor! These corporations and masters of manipulation in finance heaping up great fortunes by a system of legalized extortion,…

— Anonymous

“On average, the real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the real incomes…

— Larry M. Bartels