Jagmeet Singh Quotes

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

Low rents mean families have more resources to improve their quality of life and invest in the next generation, facilitating upward mobility.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Prohibiting Poverty

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.

What we need is a safety net that lifts people out of poverty - that helps them earn a good paycheck so they can support themselves.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.