American history Quote by Janet Yellen

In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at…

— 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

“For instance, in Sweden, Finland, and Germany, income inequality has actually grown more quickly over the past twenty to thirty years than in the…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it…

— Paul Krugman

“You hear it in every political speech, “vote for me, we’ll get the dream back.” They all reiterate it in similar words—you even hear…

— Noam Chomsky

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and…

— Janet Yellen

The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported…

— Janet Yellen

“US inequality in 2010 is quantitatively as extreme as in old Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century, but the structure of…

— Thomas Piketty

“The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans…

— Gar Alperovitz

Wealth inequality has increased.

— Cornel West

Through much of its history, the US did not have high inequality as compared with Europe. Less so, in fact. That began to change…

— Noam Chomsky

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

— Ferdinand Mount