Jeff Sessions Quotes

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

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.

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

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.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

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.

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

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.

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

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

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

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.

The progressives like to talk a lot about poverty - and you should. However, it's the guys in the middle who have really been hurt by the global economy. The people at the bottom have been holding on to their jobs quite well, actually.

The 'Welfare Reform and Work' Bill does nothing to address low wages, or underemployment, and I haven't even got started on how it undermines the provision of affordable housing.

If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security.

Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in receiving social security, and the cruel and unfair Bedroom Tax.