The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Turning back the inequality revolution may be difficult. But that would certainly help more families - at almost all income levels -… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
We must not let the response to the coronavirus crisis make the climate and inequality crises even worse. — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Who would want the socialist Utopia? Especially if you were at all artistic - you want all those inequalities, because that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating inequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security. — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The country that's been most successful at that is Norway. The more typical countries are those in the Middle East where a… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
We still live in a world of such gross injustice and inequality, that only privileged people like ourselves can afford to think… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
First of all, [Buckminster Fuller's] identification of the problems that are all that much more pertinent, all that much more pressing in… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Here's the trick, just as Marxists use the disparity, economic disparity among people to lure them into believing and supporting socialism to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know… — Moderata Fonte Copy Share Image
The burning issue of our time is the growing inequality in income and wealth in our country, and it's got to be… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality,… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer… — Edward Lazear Copy Share Image
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.” — Cory Bernardi Copy Share Image
You can be hostile to greed. You can be hostile to income inequality. You can be for raising raises... but you can't… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
When it comes to social policies, I believe women have the right to make their own choices, and inequality is a really… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks… — Joseph E. Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There's a presupposition that income inequality has been brought by tech. It's not created by an industry, or a company. — Francis X. Suarez Copy Share Image
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
“Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?” — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Krugman himself acknowledges, “[T]he growth of the U.S. economy during the Long Gilded Age benefited all classes: Most Americans were much better… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
Not only does the UK have the highest levels of regional inequality among the major economies, the imbalance is widening, not narrowing. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
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