Joseph Stiglitz Quotes

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

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

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

People working full time should not have to raise their children in poverty.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

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.

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

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

If you work, you should not be poor.

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

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

The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

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.

Workers and students and part-time working parents across New Mexico are taking home too little, trying to stretch dollars as far as they'll go to pay for basic necessities.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.