Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

Inflation appears to affect the entire electorate, though in reality those able to increase their earnings at the same rate of inflation would not suffer unduly.

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.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.

A Dominican kitchen worker in New York City can make more money than a Dominican doctor working in the Dominican Republic. Why should anyone want to stay?

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.

The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism is operated by extracting money, not so much directly being paid.

The economics of life is against the family.

We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable. I've talked to my constituents over the years, and child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

New York should be a place where everyone can afford to live.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

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

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.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

Increased tariffs and a weakened pound would mean higher food prices, hurting the poorest families - and the women trying to make ends meet at the heart of them - the most.

We need to do more to help the men and women across the country who are working hard but still struggling to make ends meet due to low wages and high healthcare costs.