Family Quote by Danielle DiMartino Booth

The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families…

— Janet Yellen

“In the 1960s, when Boomers were on campus, public colleges charged nominal, and often zero, annual tuition; today, in-state tuition runs around $13,500. The”

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

In several quarters in the 2000s, if you added up all the private savings of everyone in the United States, it was less than…

— Austan Goolsbee

In 1985, the top five percent of the households - the wealthiest five percent - had net worth of $8 trillion - which is…

— David Stockman

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

— Robert Reich

“Under Roosevelt, the top rate was raised at first to 79 percent and then later to 90 percent. Economic historian Burton Folsom notes that…

— Lawrence W. Reed

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to…

— William Greider

“By 2012 the average income of the vast majority had shrunk to the equivalent of 45 weeks of 1973 income—a 13 percent decline to…

— David Cay Johnston

It would be really hard to spend 50% of my income in one year.

— Carl Nassib

In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count…

— Michael Shnayerson

“In early 2011, 1.5 million households with roughly 3 million children were surviving on cash incomes of no more than $2 per person, per…

— Kathryn Edin

After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. By comparison, the average…

— Janet Yellen