Nina Turner Quotes

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I was once a welfare recipient and am very aware of the successes and failures of this critical safety net. There are those that would have us believe that those receiving TANF benefits are lazy, shiftless, freeloaders who are just sitting around thinking of another way to suckle from the government teat.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

Thanks to welfare's Catch-22, families receiving benefits cannot save for the future.

It is rather a shame for a rich country like ours ... that it should allow those who have toiled all their days to end in penury and possible starvation.

The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get 600 zlotkies or 800 zlotkies a month getting even less than that. That would be immoral.