Guy Standing Quotes

Income inequity has to be addressed.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

Republicans need to define and present specific policies on how to eradicate poverty, help every child achieve a quality education, and lower the cost of increasing health premiums.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.

We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

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.

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.