Janet Yellen Quotes About Inequality

Quotes about: Inequality

• The distribution of wealth is even more unequal than that of income. ...The wealthiest 5% of American households held 54% of all wealth reported in the 1989 survey. Their share rose to 61% in 2010 and reached 63% in 2013. By contrast, the rest of those in the top half of the wealth distribution —families that in 2013 had a net worth between $81,000 and $1.9 million —held 43% of wealth in 1989 and only 36% in 2013.

  Janet Yellen

  Rose, Income, Half

• The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.

  Janet Yellen

  Income, Half, Wealth

• The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.

  Janet Yellen

  Zero, Home, Average

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

• By some estimates, income and wealth inequality are near their highest levels in the past hundred years, much higher than the average during that time span and probably higher than for much of American history before then.

  Janet Yellen

  Past, Average, Years

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

• After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. …By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

  Janet Yellen

  Real, Average, Income

• The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

  Janet Yellen

  Past, Gains, Majority

  "RPT-UPDATE 2-Citing U.S. values, Yellen says greatly concerned by rise in economic inequality". www.reuters.com. October 17, 2014.

• Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

  Janet Yellen

  People, Risk, Economy

  "How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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