5 Quotes by James Lardner


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    Suddenly the already wealthy were reaping all the benefits. While other stories held our attention, that trend continued for 30 years.

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    While the United States remains a spectacularly rich country by any standard, we are drifting toward a Third-World-like distribution of our riches. For tens of millions of Americans, the alternative to unemployment has become a dead-end job that doesn't necessarily pay enough to cover basic living expenses.

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    These inequalities have happened in other countries - imperial France or some banana republic - but for 200 years we were the land of opportunity.

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