Quote by Jane Mayer

“Inequalities are inevitable under capitalism, but no other advanced economy has such a hyperconcentration of wealth. In fact, as we’ve seen, America looks far…

— Hedrick Smith

“Technological change, globalization, genetic advantages, even greed, are to be found everywhere, and can’t explain why we are more immobile than the rest of…

— F. H. Buckley

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that…

— Desmond Tutu

“It is not just that people are staying physically put. They are also likelier to stay trapped in the same income group. America, in…

— Edward Luce

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

— Timothy Noah

“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S. in the…

— Lester Thurow

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

“If we compare the gap separating rich and poor, whether measured by overall assets or annual income, we find that in every continental European…

— Tony Judt

“More than a fifth of our children live in poverty—the second worst of all the advanced economies, putting us behind countries like Bulgaria, Latvia,…

— David Cay Johnston

“We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before.”

— Herbert Hoover

“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the mid-1970s was…

— Jane Mayer

“The America of opportunity is under assault. We once ran this country to benefit hardworking people who didn’t have much, to grow a middle…

— Elizabeth Warren