Working class Quote by Bruce Cannon Gibney

In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.

— Edward Conard

“I also understood that for more than forty years, workers’ pay hadn’t kept pace with inflation. Productivity had gone up. Profits had gone up.…

— Elizabeth Warren

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable…

— David Miliband

The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.

— Noam Chomsky

“Between 1971 and 2001, while the median wage and salary income of the average worker showed literally no gain, the income of the top…

— Barack Obama

“Real wages have been declining for twenty years. People are working harder, they have to work longer hours, they have less security things are…

— Noam Chomsky

During the 1960s, rising real wages for low-income and high-income workers, due in part to rapid economic growth and the spread of unionization, worked…

— Stephanie Coontz

“The era of young adults graduating from high school, joining a union, and making a good living at a factory—working class on the job…

— Chris Farrell

Numerous studies have shown income inequality growing since the late 1970s. Real earnings have fallen for many families, with globalization, the decline of unions…

— Annie Lowrey

“Today, the US median income is still below where it was at the beginning of this century.”

— Edward Luce

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in…

— Lauren Greenfield

This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee…

— Gregory Balestrero