Curtis Jackson Quotes

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

What we're saying is that if you are poor, you can die.

The high price, therefore, which is so much complained of by the poor, has essentially mitigated their distress by bringing down to their level two or three millions more, and making them almost equal sharers in the pressure of the scarcity.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

There's more poor people in this country than there are rich, and I stick up for the poor people.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

As Washington prospers, workers suffer.

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.