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The wealthiest eighty-five people on the entire planet have more money than the poorest 3.5 billion people combined. It’s hard to even take in that statistic. Between 1979 and 2007, the wages of the top 1 percent of households in the United States rose ten times more than the bottom 90 percent.
Maggie Kulyk • Integrating Money and Meaning
Even if we did nothing to make the voucher program more cost-effective, we still could afford to offer this crucial benefit to all low-income families in America. In 2013, the Bipartisan Policy Center estimated that expanding housing vouchers to all renting families below the 30th percentile in median income for their area would require an
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
In other words, a poor kid in the US is nearly four times more likely to graduate from college than a foster kid.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
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Our job in higher ed isn’t to identify a top 1 percent of people who are freakishly remarkable or who have rich parents, and turn them into a super class of billionaires. It’s to give the bottom 90 a chance to be in the top 10.
—Scott Galloway
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Grove Art)
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