Caroline Lucas Quotes

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

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

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

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

There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

How can anyone live off of 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.

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

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.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

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

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

No one who works full time and has children should be poor in America.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.