Causes Quote by Kenneth Rogoff

Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this…

— Sharan Burrow

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of…

— Angela Davis

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

— Henry Ford

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

— Confucius

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

— Fareed Zakaria

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

— Ayn Rand

High levels of inequality generate high costs for society, dampening social mobility, undermining the labour market prospects of vulnerable social groups, and creating social…

— Jose Angel Gurria

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

— Michael Hudson

Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

— Maya Angelou

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if…

— Alice Rivlin

What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is…

— Guy Standing

There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing…

— Barack Obama