Angela Rayner Quotes

Working class people and lower income people we have to help more.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

Poverty decreased in America as a result of the War on Poverty

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

I would change the tax system markedly. The market system is wonderful but you have to take care of the poople who are left behind and do not profit from it.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.

A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

When you question this war on poverty, you get all the criticisms from adherents to the status quo who just don't want to see anything change. We got to have the courage to face that down, just as we did in the welfare reform of the late 1990s, and if we succeeded, we can help resuscitate this culture and get people back to work.