Family Quote by Jonathan Morduch

“inequality is associated with more frequent and more severe boom-and-bust cycles that make our economy more volatile and vulnerable.”

— David Cay Johnston

“Instability is not inherent to poverty. Poor families move so much because they are forced to. Along”

— Matthew Desmond

“When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy (as it did through much of history until the…

— Thomas Piketty

“So, as middle-class families have been tumbling downhill, working-class families have been tumbling into poverty. And”

— Amy Goldstein

“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

Wealth inequality has increased.

— Cornel West

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.

— Stephanie Coontz

“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.”

— Tony Judt

“The new element in part III is the headwinds—inequality, education, demography, and debt repayment—that are buffeting the U.S. economy and pushing down the growth…

— Robert J. Gordon

“Chief among these headwinds is the rise of inequality that since 1970 has steadily directed an ever larger share of the fruits of the…

— Robert J. Gordon

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