728 Poverty Quotes for You to Enjoy

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. Matthew Desmond

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Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers. Matthew Desmond

I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty. Matthew Desmond

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If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice. Matthew Desmond

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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Matthew Desmond

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What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers. Matthew Desmond

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Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. Matthew Desmond

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When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent. Matthew Quick

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Republicans need to define and present specific policies on how to eradicate poverty, help every child achieve a quality education, and lower the cost of increasing health premiums. Mercedes Schlapp

With increasing poverty, welfare dependency and violence in the United States, religion and religious organizations have an important role to play combating societal problems. Mercedes Schlapp

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