The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia. — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Middle-class economics means helping working families feel more secure in a world of constant change. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Everyone is so enamored with the puppet; they never notice the man pulling the strings.” — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
“We must also consider inequality within and not just between countries. I” — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis, — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
If we truly want to make America great, we need to fix this racial inequality. — Booker T Copy Share Image
When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius. — Felix Schelling Copy Share Image
Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers? — Charles Du Bos Copy Share Image
“If human equality is to be for ever averted — if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A multi-tier social protection system must be based on a modest basic income so as to enable the precariat to build lives… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see… — James Vance Copy Share Image
I believe that a lot of progress has been achieved to address gender inequality: We have moved from a time where women… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so.… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Depression is a serious problem, but drugs are not the answer. In the long run, psychotherapy is both cheaper and more effective,… — Irving Kirsch Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
That nations that have gone for equality, like Communism, have neither freedom nor justice nor equality, they've the greatest inequalities of all,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“PROFESSOR’S TEASER Here is an interesting teaser from Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw, in a blog post entitled ‘A quick note on… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Initially, QE contributed to a pretty significant increase in inequality. It raised asset prices, which are owned primarily by the wealthy, while… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
You know, when you don't have your real income, your take-home pay increase for a decade or a decade-and-a-half, it makes you… — Matt Schlapp Copy Share Image
“The top centile is a particularly interesting group to study in the context of my historical investigation. Although it constitutes (by definition)… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I think, from a progressive point of view, to have a Democratic Congress and a Democratic White House, and to have spent… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I… — John Gower Copy Share Image
You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The rich are becoming richer, and the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger. — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages. — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years, — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share Image