Arab spring Quote by Eric Alterman

It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should…

— Bernie Sanders

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

— Maria Konnikova

The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.

— Alissa Quart

“Almost 1/2 the world’s wealth ($110 trillion) is owned by just 1% of ts population”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than…

— Bernie Sanders

Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom…

— Nicholas Kristof

There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.

— Rick Santelli

The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income…

— Thomas Pogge

If the U.S. is the richest country in the world, why is it also the most unequal?

— Ana Kasparian

“Today, the richest 8% earn half of all the world’s income,24 and the richest 1% own more than half of all wealth.25 The poorest…

— Rutger Bregman

“The average Egyptian has an income level of around 12 percent of the average citizen of the United States and can expect to live…

— Daron Acemoğlu