Eric Schneiderman Quotes

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

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.

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.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

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

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In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

It's astounding to me that in a country where there is an ever-growing divide between rich and poor, that people won't accept the need for regulation on banks and salaries and so on.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.