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Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.
Stephanie Coontz
Marriage
Become
Community
Enter
Emotionally
Economically
Like
Well
Affluent
American
Modern
Sustain
Low-Income
Harder
During the 1960s, rising real wages for low-income and high-income workers, due in part to rapid economic growth and the spread of unionization, worked in tandem with expanding government support systems to improve Americans' well-being.
Stephanie Coontz
Government
Systems
Rapid
Rising
Economic
Economic Growth
Part
Support
Well-Being
Real
Spread
Tandem
Due
Wages
Expanding
Improve
American
Low-Income
Worked
Workers
Growth
Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining the skills that can make a low income or middle class worker a high income worker. This is so obvious that one wonders why liberals keep championing the minimum wage cause.
Stephen Moore
Work
Class
Cause
Young
Liberals
Entering
Minimum
Minimum Wage
High
Prevents
Obvious
Force
Make
Becomes
Wage
Wonders
Middle
Middle Class
Gaining
Low
Low-Income
Worker
Skills
Many
Toll
Keep
Income
Why
Championing
In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.
Steven Burd
Finance
Health
Quality
Experience
People
Care
Pay
Down
Savings
Our
Costs
Taking
Clearly
Health Care
Insurance
Coverage
Improve
Going
Confident
While
Low-Income
Help
Who
Using
Actually
Need
My husband was working as principal of an urban transformation high school - the kind of public charter school determined to do whatever it takes to give its mostly minority, low-income student body the education they need and deserve to be successful in life.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Life
Education
School
Minority
Husband
Whatever
Transformation
Kind
High
High School
Give
Determined
Charter
Student
Student Body
Takes
Principal
Mostly
Urban
Public
Low-Income
Successful
Working
Body
Deserve
Need
There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Life
Good
Me
Dance
Three
Drama
Kid
Something
Look
Always
Math
Years
Behind
Arts
Low-Income
Really
Successful
Communities
Show
Help
Even
Things
I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
Wendy Kopp
Education
Time
Old
Three
Country
Nine
Our
Kids
Focused
Had
Issue
Been
Years
Very
Grade
Behind
Just
Literally
Low-Income
Communities
Four
Levels
By The Time
Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs.
Wendy Kopp
Needs
Challenges
Face
Live
Extra
Meet
Kids
Area
Schools
Were
Up
Low
Low-Income
Show
Who
Income
Designed
More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
Wendy Kopp
Needs
Experience
Achieve
Scale
Possible
High
More
Classrooms
Potential
Absolute
Shaped
Allow
Leaders
Know
Most
Because
Understand
Been
Effective
Than
Often
Children
Them
Low-Income
Fulfill
Successfully
Teaching
Need
There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
Wendy Kopp
Care
Perception
Our
Kids
Outcomes
Case
Because
Motivated
Educational
Discovered
Families
Low
Low-Income
Communities
It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt.
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Opportunities
Burden
Critical
Gives
Consumers
Obtain
Household
Alternative
Without
Access
Debt
Items
Families
Decent
Low-Income
Products
Working-Class
Services
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Bill Gates
Success
Quality
Correlation
High
Color
Terms
Educational
Low-Income
Communities
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.
Abhijit Banerjee
Health
Women
People
Important
Protecting
Insurance
Quite
Low-Income
Useful
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