America Quote by Nicholas Kristof

The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in…

— Lauren Greenfield

The average household income has really stagnated since 1971.

— Porter Stansberry

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

There are two economic realities in America in 2016. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show…

— Lester Holt

I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in…

— Tom Vilsack

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are…

— Cliff Stearns

We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success,…

— Mario Cuomo

I think what's happened to America, in a cultural sense, is we stopped getting richer as a country in the early 1970s, but we…

— Porter Stansberry

In a way, we're going backwards. In the early '80s, it was like all these huge strides, and everything was more free and easy.…

— Boy George

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't…

— Milton Friedman

Things are getting worse. You know, when you look at this campaign, and you realize the enormously serious issues this country faces, right, we…

— Bernie Sanders

The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have…

— Charles Koch