#poverty

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. ↗

— Chaka Fattah

#african american #american #double #more #poverty

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#design #greater #human #human situation #mainly

Money can't buy poverty. ↗

— Marty Feldman

#money #poverty

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#experiencing #family #got #guards #had

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#against #american #american government #assuring #elderly

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. ↗

— George Gilder

#less #mind #poverty #real #state

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. ↗

— George Gilder

#any #families #first #male #poor

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence. ↗

— Abdul Kalam

#been #development #even #half #human

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. ↗

— Henry Fielding

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Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#age #any #black #black or white #cuts