Average Quote by Thomas Frank

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums…

— Angus Deaton

400 obscenely rich people, most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion dollar taxpayer "bailout" of 2008, now have as much loot,…

— Michael Moore

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Very few people can afford to be poor.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The most recent data available from the U.S. Census’s SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty for two…

— Jonathan Morduch

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally…

— Sasha Abramsky

Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has…

— Joe Biden

Four hundred obscenely wealthy individuals, 400 little Mubaraks - most of whom benefited in some way from the multi-trillion-dollar taxpayer bailout of 2008 -…

— Michael Moore

The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families…

— Janet Yellen

Small business people have gotten us out of nearly all modern recessions - not by waiting for others to fix things or turning to…

— Oliver DeMille

“Every year some 150 million people face severe financial hardship and 100 million are pushed below the poverty line because they fall ill, use…

— The Lancet

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes.…

— Elizabeth Warren