“As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.” ChildrenUsedSidesWealthGrowing UpRichGrowingNew YorkStudentsCollegeListeningConversationKillingFinancialEastNewspapersReportersResidentsCollege StudentsChildren Growing UpEast SideGrowing ChildrenNewspaper ReportersUpper East Side Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion
“I go to colleges all the time in America, and everyone's gay, and I think how can this be? And it's only in rich schools. In poor schools, nobody's gay.” ThinkingSchoolAmericaPoorRichCollegeGay Author:John Waters
“NC LIVE has the potential to give citizens across North Carolina immediate access to the rich array of information resources housed by the libraries on UNC's 16 campuses. It will allow unprecedented collaboration and sharing of resources among sister UNC institutions, the community colleges, and the state's public libraries.” GivingStatesCommunityRichInformationCollegeCitizensResourcesInstitutionsLibraryAccessCollaborationUnprecedentedCampusCarolinaNorth CarolinaPublic LibraryCommunity CollegeUnc Author:Molly Corbett Broad
“We talk of the enormous virtues of work, but it turns out that that is mostly for the poor. If you're rich enough or if you're a college professor, the virtue lies in leisure and the use you make of your leisure time.” IfsEnoughUseLyingTurnsPoorVirtueRichCollegeEnormousProfessorsLeisureLeisure TimeCollege Professors Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.” ReasonAmericaParentGrowthClassRichNiceMiddleCollegeCaringEnvyReason WhyMiddle ClassUpbringingVery NiceNot Caring Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.” PeopleCountryKidsAbleJobsHoursRichSeeingCollegeTaxesLowsTiredChinaIncomeDecentWagesBillionaireIncome TaxCollege EducationTired Of Working Author:Bernie Sanders
“What ends up getting this Stephen Lerner guy in the mind-set that he's in is his sense of entitlement. So he wants a college education. He wants it, he should have it. It shouldn't cost him anything. And the people who provide it certainly shouldn't be getting rich because a college education he thinks is an entitlement.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldMindEndsGuyRichCollegeCostShould HaveEntitlementGet RichMind SetCollege EducationSense Of Entitlement Author:Rush Limbaugh