Chrystia Freeland Quotes

Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

Globalization has benefited middle-income less than either richer or poorer countries.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

Those of us who have been economically successful cannot forget those who have not.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.