Eric Braeden Quotes

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

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

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.

Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

Texas is a great place to be rich and a terrible place to be poor. It's got the highest percentage of people without health insurance in the country. If you get injured on the job, good luck getting workers' comp. And God help you if you're poor and mentally ill.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

A teacher works a lot harder than I do and her work is far more important, but she will never make the money that I do.

If your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much money you make.

I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

The economics of life is against the family.

There are many families that want to raise kids on one income, or one income and some part-time work, and instead find themselves pressured, financially and culturally, to keep up with the dual-earning Smith-Joneses next door.

It's not fair that people save and work and pay for phones from whatever funds they have, and other people get them for free.

As women, we're supposed to bear the burden of raising our families and then also financially providing for them as well, and it's difficult when you're already starting off making less than the average.

You can't expect a woman who's holding down a part-time job to train for the biggest race in the world. She has to have a minimum wage, and I think it's something that is pretty crazy that we don't have that.

I'm not incredibly wealthy. When you go through a divorce, that diminishes rapidly because you're supporting more than one household.

we are slaves to the cost of living.