Sarah Jeong Quotes

The problem is not that the PC you need always costs more than you can afford. The problem is that whatever the price, it is still too much.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

High interest rates are the cruelest taxes of all.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

The high price, therefore, which is so much complained of by the poor, has essentially mitigated their distress by bringing down to their level two or three millions more, and making them almost equal sharers in the pressure of the scarcity.

He who resides in the less fortunate regions of the Republic and earns a given annual income, but because of his situation has a more restricted enjoyment of it, will pay less than someone earning the same income in the better-off parts of the Republic.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

The virtues of homeownership are so ingrained in the American psyche that we often forget that housing is also a source of economic stress. Rising milk prices are regarded as a household tragedy for some, and spiking gas prices stoke national outrage. But whenever home prices go up, it’s “a recovery,” even though that recovery also means millions of people can no longer afford to buy.

A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to city towns who can't even afford the rent in their cities anymore because costs are going so high.

I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in their rich democracy with the depth and expanse of poverty. That's really always unsettled me.

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

The economics of life is against the family.

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.

I left college with a deep sense that I needed to understand poverty more.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.