#poverty

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#am #familiar #i #i am #life

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides. ↗

— James Reston

#hides #poverty #wealth

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#because #brethren #developing #developing world #die

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. ↗

— John Burns

#big #big problem #cope #effort #impossible

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#fixes #indigenous #poverty #quick #social

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#both #bring #does #failed #hard

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#absurdity #much #poverty

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%. ↗

— Steve Israel

#america #benefit #current #over #poverty

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined. ↗

— Steve Israel

#american workers #among #declined #dramatically #economic