Rare 36 Selected Quotes From Annie Lowrey
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Rare 36 Selected Quotes From Annie Lowreye |
The United States is an outlier in the size and scope of its loan infrastructure; in many peer countries, higher education is seen as a public good and a college degree is low-cost or free.
— Annie Lowrey
The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of their debt. Nine in 10 reported experiencing anxiety.
— Annie Lowrey
The United States needs a much more progressive tax-and-transfer infrastructure, given how dramatically inequality has increased. But not every single policy needs to be ideally progressive to achieve that goal.
— Annie Lowrey
The pandemic has proved true over and over again what was already well known: that income and wealth are protective when it comes to health.
— Annie Lowrey
Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are sensitive to tax rates. But many of the people who move when their home state raises taxes are close to retirement anyway.
— Annie Lowrey
Social networks, professional networks, offices, and schools help keep high earners in place.
— Annie Lowrey
In the long run, lawmakers should keep in mind that tax rates are far from the only reason a rich person might consider flight: Decaying infrastructure and degrading public services are surely just as important.
— Annie Lowrey
No country save for India is expected to bear a heavier financial burden from climate change than the United States.
— Annie Lowrey
A warming planet is destroying the country's physical infrastructure: In 2019 alone, the United States experienced more than a dozen billion-dollar weather events, and 2020 might be worse.
— Annie Lowrey
Climate change is killing Americans. Wildfires, heat waves, mudslides, hurricanes, and floods lead to hundreds if not thousands of deaths every year. But those are only the direct fatalities.
— Annie Lowrey
The world is falling apart and nobody is there for you, 2020 has shown it over and over again. But American capitalism is.
— Annie Lowrey
The bunker business is just one instantiation, the grandest instantiation, of what you might think of as conspiracy capitalism.
— Annie Lowrey
Conspiracy theories themselves are big business, of course, selling books, videos, conferences, and all kinds of merch. Then there is the economy that promotes conspiracy theories to sell goods such as supplements, survival gear, and yes, bunkers.
— Annie Lowrey
After moving to California, I went on a no-buy streak. I began refusing short plane trips, using public transit or walking whenever possible, and turning the air-conditioning down. I even started carrying around a water bottle or a mason jar.
— Annie Lowrey
Talking with economists, climate scientists, and psychologists convinced me that depersonalizing climate change, such that the only answers are systemic, is a mistake of its own. It misses how social change is built on a foundation of individual practice.
— Annie Lowrey
The world needs to slash emissions by tens of billions of tons annually, which categorically requires government investment and government regulations.
— Annie Lowrey
In functioning high-income countries, the government guarantees the provision of essential goods and services: medical care, transit between cities, supplies for public schools, financial support to weather a period of unemployment.
— Annie Lowrey
Long before 2020, many Americans were in the position of patching their own safety net and acting as their own city hall.
— Annie Lowrey
Fighting recessions and building public infrastructure, including care, health, and educational infrastructure - this should not be the work of citizens. When it is, let's acknowledge that's a tragedy.
— Annie Lowrey
Police forces across America need root-to-stem changes - to their internal cultures, training and hiring practices, insurance, and governing regulations.
— Annie Lowrey
As a general point, the United States has an extreme budget commitment to prisons, guns, warplanes, armored vehicles, detention facilities, courts, jails, drones, and patrols - to law and order, meted out discriminately.
— Annie Lowrey
A thin safety net, an expansive security state: This is the American way. At all levels of government, the country spends roughly double on police, prisons, and courts what it spends on food stamps, welfare, and income supplements.
— Annie Lowrey
Members of Congress - with or without inside information - simply should not be allowed to trade stocks.
— Annie Lowrey
The country should not have to wonder whether politicians' stock trades were corrupt. It should not have to think about politicians' portfolios at all.
— Annie Lowrey
Americans are no less susceptible to disease, joblessness, and family changes than their peers in rich nations, but they are made more fragile by these crises. The country has a thinner safety net, fewer public goods, and less social insurance than other countries.
— Annie Lowrey
Perhaps the country's most pressing problem is its high uninsured rate. Every other country as wealthy as the United States has figured out how to cover its entire population, generally at a much lower cost, too.
— Annie Lowrey
During a coronavirus-induced downturn, families will be at greater risk for food insecurity, eviction, and job loss; kids will go hungry; food pantries and social-service organizations will come under more strain.
— Annie Lowrey
The cost-of-living crisis extends beyond housing. Health-care costs are exorbitant, too: Americans pay roughly twice as much for insurance and medical services as do citizens of other wealthy countries, but they don't have better outcomes.
— Annie Lowrey
Along with the rise of inequality, the slowdown in productivity growth, and the shrinking of the middle class, the spiraling cost of living has become a central facet of American economic life.
— Annie Lowrey
Domestic dogs thrive in the backyard and at the foot of the bed. Wolves thrive on the hunt in the country's wildlands.
— Annie Lowrey
The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable, inhumane conditions, and kept in equally miserable, inhumane conditions.
— Annie Lowrey
Wolves want to be wolves. Servals want to be servals. Bears want to be bears. And it is impossible to be a wolf or a serval or a bear when living in a cage.
— Annie Lowrey
In some ways, modern life has made us unkind. That unkindness has profound personal effects. And if we can build a kinder society, that would make life better for everyone.
— Annie Lowrey
At a personal level, there's ample evidence that being aware of your emotions and generous to yourself improves your physical and mental health, as well as your relationships with others.
— Annie Lowrey
Many women are the lower-earning partner in a married couple, thanks in part to forces that relegate women to less remunerative professions and pay them less for the same work.
— Annie Lowrey
An explosion of meat-replacement products has followed the path set by almond milk in the past few years, not just tempeh- or seitan- or soy-based products that taste nothing like meat, but meat simulacra.
— Annie Lowrey
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