Chris Van Hollen Quotes

Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.

Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development - cognitively, intellectually and emotionally.

The capacity of children to become self-sufficient and successful adults is compromised not only by monetary poverty, but by poverty of experience, influence, and expectation

Poverty for a female, went beyond teh wretchedness of having no money.

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

I grew up in one of the most deprived parts of Britain. I know the problems which inner-city children face.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults.

It is easy to say that poverty is no crime .... It is a blunder though, and is punished ... A poor man is despised the whole world over.

The wiping out of crime is so largely an economic question because much crime arises from the fact that children grow up in undesirable surroundings and have parents that have been conditioned by the same type of environment.

There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

We are trying to say that low income and low job opportunities, after a long period of time, tears at the social fabric.

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.

To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.

Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.

Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.