Inequality is an enormously complicated thing that is both good and bad. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
If we save the planet and have a society of inequality, we wouldn't have saved much. — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
While capitalist countries have more inequality - they also have more wealth overall. — Dan Bongino Copy Share Image
“When inequality takes root, a garden of problems flourishes.” — Chintha Sai Bhargav Reddy Copy Share Image
That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester. — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We must continue to address the fact that working people and communities already suffering the most from inequality were hit the hardest… — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008. — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“We have created a society in which all the nation’s economic gains flow to the top and the vast majority sees income… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I was at the World Bank and a commission reviewed our work on inequality for the U.S. Congress or somebody, and the… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
A world where Congressmen spend 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from a tiny, tiny fraction of the 1%… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
The problem in Peru is not so much poverty - it is inequality. The essence of the discourse in 2005 and 2006… — Ollanta Humala 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
Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“No country without a revolution or a military defeat and subsequent occupation has ever experienced such a sharp a shift in the… — Lester Thurow Copy Share Image
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous. — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
The amount of suffering I've seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief. — David Hogg 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
That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now. — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years, — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
