Quotes About Socioeconomic

by 1905, cotton experts estimated, a full 15 million people, or about 1 percent of the world's population, were engaged in the growing of cotton.

Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden, coming and going in an American car as wide as the street. If we do not tear out this disease by the roots we shall have with us a bourgeoisie that is in no way connected with the reality of our life...

Tampoco hay que despreciar el hecho que el índice de crecimiento demográfico es tanto más elevado cuanto más se desciende en la escala social, lo que constituye un factor suplementario de regresión.

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

No, Islam did not lift American blacks out of poverty; capitalism did that.

Between 2000 and 2016, half of Americans saw no gains to their real incomes; the proportion of national output going to the top 1 percent went from 9 percent of GDP in 1974 to 24 percent in 2008.5

From the earlier discussion of Europe in the nineteenth century, however, it should be clear that the middle classes are not inevitably supporters of democracy. This tends to be particularly true when the middle classes still constitute a minority of the population.

el subdesarrollo mexicano se encuentra en la catástrofe educativa, en la superstición religiosa y en la intolerancia política.

At first it was the incomes of corporations, then of rich citizens, then of well-provided widows and opulent workers, and finally the wealth of housemaids and the tips of waitresses. This is all in line with the ability to pay doctrine. The poor, simply because there are more of them, have more ability to pay than the rich.

So a child's path is already determined by age five, provided his or her parents have enough knowledge, foresight, and indeed money. Very few poor or less educated parents have the resources or knowledge to make these choices so early on.

Well-to-do Shanghai schoolboys had no fears of conscription at a time when country boys their age, lacking strings to pull or money to hire surrogates, were dying at a shocking rate, with hundreds of thousands sometimes killed in a single battle. "Don't use good iron to make bullets," was the saying among the privileged.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still entirely unknown.

the larger part of the 50,000 English stocking knitters and their families did not fully emerge from the hunger and misery entailed by the introduction of the machine for the next forty years.

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

A comfortable retirement should not only be a luxury for the wealthy, but a reality for every New Yorker.

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash.

I think connected to poverty is the trauma of poverty. It's not just a material thing; it's a psychological thing that we have no mental health system in this country.

If it is the choice between a bullet train and a three-wheeler, I will choose the latter as it is the traveling mode of the poor people.

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.