Jake Halpern Quotes

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

Poverty leads to protests.

As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting.

We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

Poverty is ever an inbred growth

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.