Eric Alterman Quotes

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

It is simply not credible to tackle child poverty without acknowledging the worst issue - a lack of money.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

One-fourth of the children in this country are poor—and they don't vote.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

Poverty leads to protests.

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.

Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

Poverty is slavery.