- "More than half of renters-21.1 million households-were cost burdened in 2012, paying more than 30 percent of income for housing. This is the greatest number of housing cost burdened renters on record."
- "Twenty-two billionaires-just shy of two percent of the world's total-have purchased units in a condominium tower being built in Sunny Isles Beach, a small city in Miami-Dade County."
- "More than half of families in the United States earn $60,000 or less per year."
- "Residents of Gowanus, Brooklyn, generally agree on one thing: The Whole Foods opening this month will irrevocably change the neighborhood."
- "He cited streetlights as a prime example of Detroit's decline. Nearly half of the city's 88,000 street lamps are dark, according to city estimates."
- "New York City, which has a combined city and state tax of over 12 percent, was the number one city for adding multimillionaires worth $30 million or more over the past year."
- "She belongs to a vast and invisible tribe of more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression, in the most unequal metropolis in America."
- "There are superyachts. There are trawler yachts. And now-it had to happen-there are super-trawler yachts."
- "Georgia agencies providing home heating help are reporting record numbers of applicants this winter."
- "A recent visit to their old country club for a wedding underscored that its society - 'all about things and jewelry and all that silly stuff' - was no longer congenial, Mrs. Meerow said. 'That's not who we are anymore.'"
- "About 1.3 million long-term jobless Americans will lose federal benefits if Congress fails to reauthorize the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, which expires at the end of December."
- "Who Among Us Wouldn't Listen To A Guy Pitch An Investment Involving 'Pay-Per-View Programming Starring Carmen Electra' And Proceed To Wire Him $195,000?"
- "More than half of Minnesota's detox centers have closed, forcing jails and hospital ERs to cope with chronic drinkers and addicts."
- "A limited-edition line of rose gold-colored, all-metal Starbucks gift cards sold out in seconds this year, despite the steep $450 price tag."
- "Forty-six percent of New Yorkers are poor or nearly poor."
- "Just over a year after launching, though, the only customer review on Blackjet's iPhone app called the [Uber for private jets] service 'horrible,' complaining about the one month approval process after paying the $2,500 fee: 'I've had less hassle getting into the White House (and I'm not kidding about that).'"
- "The most important difference between Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games and my variant is that the poverty in the real world is unfathomably worse than the poverty depicted in the series."
