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“in 1960, 18 percent of our national income was spent on food while 5 percent was spent on health care. Today 9 percent of…

— Kris Carr

“Already in 2001, 63 percent of very low income households were putting more than half their income toward housing, leaving too little for other…

— Kathryn Edin

“We need to consume less. A lot less. Less food, less energy, less stuff. Fewer cars, electric cars, cotton T-shirts, laptops, mobile phone upgrades.…

— Stephen Emmott

I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in…

— Tom Vilsack

“We spend a trillion dollars a year on food, but it’s only 9.4 percent of our expendable income, the lowest percentage of any country…

— Mark Bittman

We are spending more as a percentage of our entire economy, almost 25 percent, than we have spent at any time since the end…

— John Thune

Ninety-nine percent of everyday things are things we don't need - that goes for regular visits to the hairdresser just as it does for…

— Karl-Johan Persson

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In…

— Michael Pollan

“The best available apples-to-apples comparison of inflation-adjusted earnings shows what the typical fully employed man earned back in the 1970s and what that same…

— Elizabeth Warren

Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.

— Fatih Birol

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“The share of income going to the rich remained remarkably constant from the mid-1940s through the 1970s and then began to escalate rapidly. For…

— Larry M. Bartels