Dejan Lovren Quotes

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

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

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

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

I grew up poor.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

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

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

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

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?