Country Quote by Esther McVey

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago.…

— Eric Holder

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits…

— David Korten

As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.

— Robert Reich

We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people are running…

— Sasha Abramsky

Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number…

— Bill Dedman

More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.

— Pope Francis

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce…

— Adam Davidson

There has been little to no attention from policymakers to the economic inequalities young people face. Instead of job creation policies, our country's youth…

— Reshma Saujani

Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America. Right along…

— Thom Hartmann

High-skilled workers increasingly choose lucrative jobs that don't serve or supervise low-skilled workers. Low-skilled productivity and wage growth has lagged as a result.

— Edward Conard

You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the…

— Davis Guggenheim