America Quote by Paul Ryan

The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the…

— Bill O'Reilly

The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision…

— Barbara Boxer

“From 1960 to 1970, as the New Deal expanded into the Great Society, the number of Americans in poverty declined from 40 million to…

— Ian Haney López

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all…

— Richard Trumka

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

— David Korten

“But once again, there is some disappointing news, as the income of the median or typical American household is down since 2000, and unless…

— Tyler Cowen

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000,…

— Mitt Romney

“No country without a revolution or a military defeat and subsequent occupation has ever experienced such a sharp a shift in the distribution of…

— Lester Thurow

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country…

— Anonymous

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

“Real wages have been declining for twenty years. People are working harder, they have to work longer hours, they have less security things are…

— Noam Chomsky

“As a broad generalization, liberals see income as a public good that is distributed, like crayons in a kindergarten class. If so-and-so didn’t get…

— Jonah Goldberg