Any Quote by Timothy Noah

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

“On average, the real incomes of middle-class families have grown twice as fast under Democrats as they have under Republicans, while the real incomes…

— Larry M. Bartels

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

Income inequality has made having kids, much like getting a quality college education, a rich person's privilege.

— Ana Kasparian

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

— Luciana Berger

“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people…

— Jay-Z

It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.

— Gillian Anderson

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and…

— Thomas Piketty

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

— Jonathan Ames

The concern that I have is that, as wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few, economic inequality grows, and power also…

— Jane Mayer

Africa's young population could be a huge economic asset if inequality were addressed.

— Winnie Byanyima

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