Barbara Kruger Quotes

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

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

I came from the most humble side of society, and I know what it's like to be poor, really poor, and I was brought up in the '60s and '70s very poor, and I'm very happy flying the flag for the working man.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

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

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

All the poor white people, all the poor black people, all the Hispanics, they're in the same boat. They've got no economic opportunities.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

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.

I worked on minimum wage; I didn't go to college out of school. I worked multiple jobs, and it's probably not something Sen. Hagan's not had to worry about because we grew up in very different life circumstances.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.