Louis McHenry Howe Quotes

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

What good is a high GDP if some, or even many, Americans are left behind?

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

All over the globe the U.S. is fighting to protect and develop at least a minority who consume what the U.S. majority can afford.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

As income inequality increases, social mobility falls.