Charles Murray Quotes

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.

If you work, you should not be poor.

Preventing poverty beats curing it.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

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.

Alleviating poverty would be the Bank's overarching objective.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.

Prohibiting Poverty

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.

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

We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should.

Universal basic income is not a solution in search of a problem - it is the obvious solution that has been in front of us for years. It only requires us to have the vision, empathy and courage to adopt it for the American people before it is too late.

From Scotland to India, and from Silicon Valley to Kenya, policymakers all over the world have become interested in basic income as an answer to poverty, unemployment and the bureaucratic behemoth of the modern welfare state.

No person should live in poverty after a life of hard work.

A universal basic income would be the best way to give everyone the opportunity to do more unpaid but incredibly important work, such as caring for children and the elderly.

I think one of the most important facts of basic income would be that it's not only a redistribution of income, but also of power. So the cleaners and bin men would have a lot more bargaining power.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

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.