Poverty Quotes

While easy to understand, the income-based poverty line has limitations. Specifically, the median monthly household income measures only income without considering assets. Carrie Lam
Poverty Considering Monthly Easy Only Poverty Line Household Without Limitations Understand Line While Measures Income Median Specifically Assets
Given the relativity concept, poverty cannot be eliminated. Indeed, an economic upturn with a broad improvement in household income does not guarantee a decrease in the size of the poor population, especially when the income growth of households below the poverty line is less promising than the overall. Carrie Lam
Poverty Broad Relativity Indeed Promising Given Economic Poverty Line Overall Concept Household Households Does Line Than Improvement Size Cannot Poor Decrease Less Population Income Growth Eliminated Below Guarantee
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. Cat Stevens
Faith Injustice Suffering Political Try Poverty Those Muslim Economic Part Help Who
Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith. Catherine Cortez-Masto
Faith Home Injustice Survival Ending Poverty Fighting Preserving Our Paramount Only Long-Term Also Protecting Safeguarding Forests Endangered Endangered Species Essential Common Species Humankind
Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic. Catherine Tate
Creativity Poverty Feeling Nothing Panic Bit Hopelessness Like
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. Chaka Fattah
Poverty Seniors Security Would Rates More Without Than American African African-American Social Double Social Security
Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. Charles Bass
Crime Parents Poverty Single Become Live Living Difficulty Crimes Several Independent Had Also Frequent Making Targets Commit Children Transition Many Foster Foster Children Homeless
Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness. Charles Best
School Poverty Single Differences Parent Student School Teachers Involvement Readiness Within Encounter Often Teachers Levels
For people to escape poverty for good, we need better policies that support work, strengthen families, and move America forward. Charles Boustany
Work Good People Better Poverty Support Policies Escape Families America Move Forward Strengthen Need
What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility. Charles M. Blow
People Crime Degree Poverty Few Too Despair Hopelessness Mention Concentrated Discussing Few People Which Violence
I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money. Cherie Blair
Money Poverty Abject About Give Box Were Impression Up Anxieties Childhood Want Grew Mean Liverpool Cardboard Cardboard Box
I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Time People Poverty Think Spend About More Write Go Lot Often Poor Poor People Who Need
Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty. Chiranjeevi
Poverty Inclusive Faster India Promote Tackle More Potential Could Tourism Powerful Antidote Sustainable Used Growth
Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America. Chris Christie
Old Poverty Rules System Security No-One Make Sure America Social Worked Meant Meant To Be Paid Hard Social Security Grows Played
You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. Chris Hughes
You Poverty Solution Pretty Magic Learn Fast
One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education. Chris Van Hollen
Education Higher Education Poverty Cost Higher Obstacles Greatest Escaping Staggering
It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood. Chris Van Hollen
Poverty Follow Adolescence Through Adulthood Known Effects Childhood Children Widely
When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she's from. Frequent visits with her to see my extended family have taught me how different life can be if you are born into poverty. Christy Turlington
Life Family Me You Son Mother Poverty Took Seven Months Visits See Born Trip She Frequent How Salvador Taught Where Different El Salvador Pregnant Different Life Her Extended Extended Family
This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that. Chrystia Freeland
Needs People Poverty Hundreds Out See Lifting Globalization Left Up Millions Millions Of People
The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy . The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually. Chrystia Freeland
You Hurt People Poverty Holding Progressives Jobs About Guys Bottom Like Economy Global Global Economy Talk Well However Been Lot Quite Middle Holding On Really Should Who Actually
A prerequisite to the inclusive prosperity that will increase equality and reduce poverty is growth. This requires an innovative economy in which productive businesses, the state and citizens work together to create wealth and ensure that globalisation works for many more people. Chuka Umunna
Work Together People Equality Wealth Prosperity Will Poverty Inclusive Increase State Innovative Ensure Citizens More More People Economy Globalisation Reduce Which Work Together Create Requires Productive Businesses Many Works Prerequisite Growth
I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it. Clare Short
Time Law Rest Poverty Tony Blair Our Rule Rule Of Law More Blair Part Environment Institutions Up Than Where Breaking Breaking Up Mean International International Institutions Agreement Ever Need Tony
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth. Clint Black
Truth Time Truth Is Hate People Wealth Desperate Poverty Year Rich Live Bizarre Some Abroad Economic Driven Because Leave However Years Overseas Get Just Tax Rich People Really Paying Avoid Homeland
I think it goes back to whether or not race and class - that is, race and poverty - is not becoming even more of a constraint. Because with the failing public schools, I worry that the way that my grandparents got out of poverty, the way that my parents became educated, is just not going to be there for a whole bunch of kids. Condoleezza Rice
Class Parents Poverty Public Schools Think Back Worry Way Kids Out Constraint More Failing Schools Became Because Becoming Got Educated Bunch Goes Going Just Whether Public Race Grandparents Whole Even
We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty. Cory Booker
Time People Wealth Poverty Nation Few Living Our Presidential Must Hillary Hillary Clinton Nominee Knows How Clinton Greatness America Few People Measured Who Billionaires Many Wide Millionaires
I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No. Cory Booker
Work Today Food You People Care Poverty Community Live Think Corner Market Jobs Food Stamps Struggling Poverty Line Still Doing Line Stock Where Stamps Use Working-Class Full-Time Who Number
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