“The porters only walked on carpet; the housekeepers walked everywhere else.” — Belinda Kelderhouse Copy Share Image
“Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,” — Pierre Rosanvallon Copy Share Image
“Privileged groups work for greater power consolidation through favoritism.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The rich aren't paying for luxury - they're paying for basic humanity.” — Lindy West, Shrill Copy Share Image
When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Regardless of how you interpret the facts, you have to come to the conclusion that inequality is widening in the US and… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege. — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
“I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
When I was confronted with just the bare facts of poverty and inequality in America, it always disturbed and confused me. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The default of our society is the reproduction of racial inequality. I mean, that's what it does; that's what it's been doing… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
At the core of conservative social policy about race are old ideas that link racial inequality to non-traditional family formation and its… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. — Michael Marmot 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
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
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
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
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
Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Equality, as understood by the American Founders, is the natural right of every individual to live freely under self-government, to acquire and… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States… — Frances Fox Piven Copy Share Image
Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. What (people cry) are women doing with this… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“There is good reason for pervasive middle-class angst. Financial insecurity has been written into the DNA of the New Economy. Not only… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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