Education Quote by Milton Friedman

We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people are running…

— Sasha Abramsky

Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because we have…

— Joseph Stiglitz

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening…

— Robert Reich

America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't…

— Colin Powell

The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not…

— Ben Bernanke

This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you…

— Barack Obama

Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are…

— Chris Meledandri

No kid graduating in a political science class in Canada should not understand what's happened to income inequality since the 1970s, period. And then,…

— Michael Ignatieff

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy…

— Joseph Stiglitz

I think inequality has gone past the point where it's helping us all get rich, and it's really becoming a serious threat.

— Angus Deaton

More fundamentally, this kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise at the very heart of America: that this is the place where…

— Barack Obama

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor

— Robert Reich