#poverty

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

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#clinton #country #created #ever #greatest

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#after #contributions #difference #enormous #face

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty. ↗

— Donald Evans

#country #creating #debate #economic #economic growth

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#black #causes #country #itself #must

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#action #hunger #important #lever #poverty

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#care #extreme #extreme poverty #health #health care

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#asia #athens #beauty #confronted #europe

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

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

— Chaka Fattah

#african american #american #double #more #poverty