Aids Quote by Jimmy Carter

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage,…

— Barack Obama

The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now take for…

— Mike Quigley

Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work.

— Scott Gottlieb

“Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in the United…

— Chris Hedges

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

— Sherrod Brown

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is…

— Anthony Scaramucci

“Generations of Americans built our Social Security system to provide basic and widespread protection against loss of earnings arising from the death, disability, or…

— David Cay Johnston

Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

— Adam Cohen

“There is good reason for pervasive middle-class angst. Financial insecurity has been written into the DNA of the New Economy. Not only has the…

— Hedrick Smith

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of…

— Al Franken

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

— Bernie Sanders

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and…

— Michael Eric Dyson