Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive,… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing.… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Women speak an average 18,000 more words a day than men do. And there may be a genetic reason, it may be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The sharp reduction in income inequality that we observe in almost all the rich countries between 1914 and 1945 was due above… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Since the end of the 1970s, something has gone profoundly wrong in America. Inequality has soared. Educational progress slowed. Incarceration rates quintupled.… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
America has tolerated inequality because people think they can get ahead. If you have immobility on top of inequality, then people are… — Thomas B. Edsall Copy Share Image
“The hyping of disabled athletes into superhuman status by Channel 4 only deepens our wounds, inflicted by continual assaults on our daily… — Penny Pepper Copy Share Image
If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what techno-determinists want us to believe, inequality is not the inevitable by-product of technology and globalization or even the lopsided… — Jonathan Taplin Copy Share Image
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
If you don't have money or you come from a background that doesn't have money, it's harder to achieve your ambition in… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't… — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Economic growth driven by large-scale infrastructure investments without equitable provision of education will leave hundreds of millions of people behind, exacerbating inequality,… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Don't give up - our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't… — Janet Suzman Copy Share Image
Here's what income and wealth inequality is about. Last year, the top 25 hedge fund managers made more than 24 billion, enough… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly.… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“We should also remember that punishment and inequality are intimately linked—that the causality runs in both directions. Disparities in punishment reflect socioeconomic… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
In both Russia and the U.S., there are a very small number of very, very rich people, and then there are a… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Today, the top one-tenth of 1% owns nearly as much wealth as the bottom 90%. The economic game is rigged, and this… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“If we compare the gap separating rich and poor, whether measured by overall assets or annual income, we find that in every… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Quietly, without much public fuss or discussion, a new ruling class has risen in the richer nations. These men and women are… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
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