Kristin Davis Quotes

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

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

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

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

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

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

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

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

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

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

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.

For too many, to work means having less income.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

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.

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