Raj Chetty Quotes

We can and will make Chicago a place where your ZIP code doesn't determine your destiny.

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income distribution.

All of the economic theories in the world translate themselves eventually to what happens to people in communities.

Wild globalization has helped some people much, but has hurt most.

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization.

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.

We think there are better solutions to fighting poverty because we see what the War on Poverty has produced. It produced tens of trillions of dollars in spending. It has been a 51-year exercise, and yet the poverty rates in America today are not much better than when we started the War on Poverty.

The privileged elites are part of the globalization moment that we live in.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

We are in a world where globalization, which is an ideology, has forgotten and put aside the people, the people's interests, aspirations, and dreams.

It's true that globalization, with all its fantastic improvements in the world and the technological progress linked to it, has increased inequality at country level, especially inside countries. And there are people that were left behind - people, sectors, regions - that has created a sense of frustration in the rust belts of the world.

I wanted more people from my city to be able to have the kind of opportunity that I had.

The income disparity is a huge issue. And I think that the only solution to this - there is no easy solution - are fundamental changes. That the world is changing quicker than our policies are changing. And we need the kinds of policies that will let us have a competitive economy going forward.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

The only difference between Compton and other cities is the ZIP Code, you know, and the mindset - it's just really about challenging people to take ownership of our community.

I don't see basic income as a panacea, but we must have a new income distribution system. The old one has broken down irretrievably.

Having an economy that works for the 99% is achievable.

We need to focus much more on the bottom 40 per cent. They are losing ground, and the fact that they are losing ground blocks social mobility and brings down economic growth.

It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum's founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the heartless corporate model of globalization.

Make it so people can actually find good housing, can find good quality jobs and can afford to live - then we can weaken the climate of insecurity and fear that allow people to be exploited to increase division.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and the right opportunities has also created extraordinary disruption and havoc among the American middle-class.

Federal policies must understand the linkages between economic growth, social mobility, and a strong middle class.