22 Quotes to Understand Janet Yellen - DailyFinance:
"On income inequality in the U.S.
"[Sen. Don Riegle, D-Mich.] pointed to one of the most disturbing and fundamental long-term secular shifts in the American economy that we have seen in recent decades. American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 1973. Since that time, the pace of productivity advance has slowed for reasons which are still not understood, lowering the rate at which living standards have advanced. Even more disturbing, wage inequality has risen, with young men with high school diplomas, for example, experiencing real wage losses of roughly 25 percent from 1971 to 1988. These trends have frustrated the aspirations of many Americans." (June 1995)"
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"You hear that language of personal choice, not only on the left with
regard to abortion, but for conservatives in opposition to things like SNAP
benefits for unmarried women..."
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"Well, you chose to have this baby while you were poor, and everyone knows
you could have chosen differently — when that could entail not having sex
or kil...
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