Rising Cost of Living Quotes

To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

One of the causes of the Arab Spring was high unemployment.

The upwardly mobile American is becoming a statistical oddity..

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Once upon a time, the U. S. economy grew in tandem with the productivity of American workers, leading to the creation of jobs and wealth across society. During the [21st] century’s first decade, however, this relationship no longer applied. GDP grew and productivity climbed, while job creation slowed to a crawl, median incomes fell—and the rich get richer.

I've done my part to 'ruin' Austin.

I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.