Quotes About The Economic Gap

#1. Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

William Julius Wilson

#2. Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy.

Daniel Goleman

#3. The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Dalai Lama XIV

#4. Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy

Nicolas Sarkozy

#5. If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.

Hillary Clinton

#6. Studies demonstrate that as gaps are being closed between men and women - in access to education, in health, even in economic participation - the most difficult gap to close is in political participation. Somehow that sharing of raw power, political power, remains very illusive.

Melanne Verveer

#7. The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

Michelle Bachelet

#8. The best way to improve economic prospects for women is to improve job prospects for the men in their lives, even if that means increasing the so-called pay gap.

Phyllis Schlafly

#9. Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#10. Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#11. The biggest gap there is in America is not economic; the gap is spiritual and cultural.

Mike Huckabee