Family Quote by Amy Goldstein

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— Matthew Desmond

“This one-two punch—flat incomes and rising expenses—has hit the middle class squarely in the gut. Beginning”

— Elizabeth Warren

“The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.”

— Edward Luce

“Indeed, the instability of families’ incomes has risen faster than the inequality of families’ incomes.”

— Jonathan Morduch

“the hard-working, honest rich are the primary providers of jobs that allow us to have a middle class in this country.”

— Ben Carson

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always…

— Susan George

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

— Mohsin Hamid

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their…

— George Gilder

“Being without one's family is the worst poverty”

— Kara Dalkey

The middle class is collapsing and we are moving toward an oligarchic form of society, where the billionaires will control the economy and the…

— Bernie Sanders

“Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become prosperous in…

— Tarun Sharma

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

— William Julius Wilson