In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging.… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between… — Richard G. Wilkinson Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the federal elections, where I filed a 104-page essentially financial statement… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Unequal distribution of income is an excessively uneconomic method of getting the necessary saving done. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
That whole 99% thing, they are all in the 1% of the world. Every one of them pays a cellphone bill that… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would… — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges. — Ralph Goodale Copy Share Image
Between 2009 and 2012, 95% of the country's income gains went to the top 1% of earners. — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The climate change problem is at its heart an ethical problem. It's a problem of income distribution and it's a problem of… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image