#social

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

#economic #economic power #establish #insurance #most

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. ↗

— Seth Gordon

#conversations #dinner #dinner table #economics #economists

Another man whose social life has ruined him. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#another man #him #life #man #ruined

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#like #other #plus #soccer #social

We know that Medicare is set to go bankrupt in 2024 with no action, and social security is set to be insolvent by 2037. ↗

— Joe Heck

#bankrupt #go #know #medicare #security

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security. ↗

— Brian Higgins

#oppose #plan #president #privatize #security

Faith reminds us that change is always possible. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#christian-living #christianity #faith #politics #social-change

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform. ↗

— Steve Israel

#changes #consider #considering #disabilities #how

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this one's son and that one's nephew, but spending no time with your own family. It is no secret that many people here think that you are a communist.' Rasheed reflected that this probably meant only that he loathed the poverty and injustice endemic to the village, and that he made no particular secret of it. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#communism #poverty #social-injustice #family