Income Inequality Quotes

• The major economic policy challenges facing the nation today - pick your favorites among the usual suspects of low public and household savings, concerns about educational quality and achievement, high and rising income inequality, the large imbalances between our social insurance commitments and resources - are not about monetary policy.

  Timothy Geithner

  Educational, Commitment, Economic Inequality

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• Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

  Eric Alterman

  Spring, Uganda, Egypt

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• This is what income inequality means in America, and why the gap between the very rich and everyone else is growing wider. According to a recent study, CEO pay is now 295 times more than the pay of a typical worker. In 1965, the differential was 20 times. We must create an economy that works for all, not just the top 1%.

  Bernie Sanders

  Mean, America, Typical

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• We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

  Mario Cuomo

  Success, Dream, Hard Work

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• Let us wage a moral and political war against the gross wealth and income inequality... ...let us understand that when we stand together, we will always win.

  Bernie Sanders

  War, Winning, Political

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• Real income inequality is what we used to call striving and working hard to get ahead. Striving, educating ourselves, getting up and going to work, preparing, using our ambition, and, in that process, some people earned more and earned it sooner than others.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Ambition, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There are two economic realities in America today. There's been a record six straight years of job growth, and new census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation. However, income inequality remains significant, and nearly half of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

  Lester Holt

  Jobs, Reality, Years

  The First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Income, Want

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We've got some great big problems in our world. We have to figure out how to feed 10 billion people. Too many people can't access clean water, quality healthcare, and reasonable education. We have to figure out what to do about climate change, income inequality, and more. Innovators need to rise to the challenge!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Our World, Water, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think the stress on income inequality is something that every American should take seriously.

  Hillary Clinton

  Stress, Thinking, Income

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

  Robert Higgs

  People, Connections, Income

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• Nothing would more quickly and definitively reduce U.S. income inequality than allowing every worker in all businesses to participate in deciding the range of incomes from one worker to another. They would never do what is now a matter of normality: give one person millions, in some cases billions, while others have barely enough to make a living.

  Richard D. Wolff

  Giving, Income, Matter

  "The Progressive Interview". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.democracyatwork.info. April 10, 2014.

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• The term 'income inequality' is a bit misleading because it suggests in a somewhat pejorative way that the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor.

  Edward Lazear

  Income, Way, Rich

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• Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.

  Foster Friess

  Jobs, Zuckerberg, Effort

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• There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Moving, Class

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• Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare.

  Wesley K. Wark

  Impact, Climate, Income

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.

  Tyler Cowen

  Simple, Ties, Innovation

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• Income inequality matters more on a day-to-day basis. Wealth matters more for political influence.

  Thomas Pogge

  Political, Income, Matter

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been running that city for all this time? Who has created the underclass in this country? It's the Democrat Party.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Country, New York

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• A holistic solution to income inequality is going to take a lot of work, but every time you prove that one of the strands is achievable and that it has a positive impact on people's lives you take another step towards proving the bigger theory of the case.

  Bill de Blasio

  Impact, People, Income

  "Bill de Blasio on the Crisis of Inequality and the Blind Spots of the Democratic Party". Interview with Eric Alterman, www.thenation.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Stress, Thinking, Income

  "Interview: Jonathan Haidt on Social Conservatives, New Atheists and Civility in Politics". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

  Steven Rattner

  Eye, Pay Gap, Growing

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• The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.

  Steven Rattner

  Economic Inequality, Presidential, Political

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• The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

  Max Fisher

  United States, Income, Inequality

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ikea, Income, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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