Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

I'd worked at the World Bank briefly as an undergrad and studied poverty levels around the world - particularly those earning less than $1.25 a day.

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

We have got some mountains to move. Three billion people - half of God's children - are living on less than $2 a day.

There is still a severe and scary amount of extreme poverty in rural parts of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma and sub-Saharan Africa.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

Half the people of the world are living on less than $2 a day.

When the World Economic Forum was established in 1971, the global population was four billion, of which 50% lived in poverty.

There are two billion fellow human beings who live on less than $2 a day.

The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a day in a world of unprecedented wealth.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

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.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact of global poverty. They read the statistics, but they rarely witness at first hand the misery and degradation of life on a dollar a day.

We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.