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“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the…

— Michelle Alexander

“The United States, which idealized itself as a classless society in which everyone had the opportunity to get ahead, had in fact fallen behind…

— Jane Mayer

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one…

— Margaret Halsey

“When significant numbers of people see their standards of living fall despite an ever-growing economic pie, it threatens the social contract of the economy…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Today we hear that the gains from economic growth accrue to the highest-income earners while the standard of living of the poor and middle…

— Kevin Hassett

Our society's sort of turning into a two-class system, where... most of the wealth and privileges are being concentrated into the hands of fewer…

— John Rzeznik

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that…

— James Gray

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a…

— Matt Taibbi

“unless you consider it just for the worst sort of people to have the best living conditions, or unless you're prepared to call a…

— Thomas More

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

We live in a world where economic positions - income and wealth - are very unevenly distributed, and this leads to the widespread persistence…

— Thomas Pogge

“Borders are the single biggest cause of discrimination in all of world history. Inequality gaps between people living in the same country are nothing…

— Rutger Bregman