Jesse Jackson Quotes

Unemployment, low wages, and poverty discourage family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will dissolve.

Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

Money can't buy poverty.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

People without jobs cannot be expected to behave in a lawful, measured way.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have a buffer in one way or another. We have a savings account, or we have credit that we can go to. The underserved don't have that luxury.

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

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

In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have to do much more to satisfy demands made on them if they want to gain meagre state benefits.

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.

Yes, there is a burden of financial insecurity. I don't think you find it in mood. Income is correlated with life satisfaction, so maybe you do find it in life satisfaction. You don't find it in mood, and I think it is very important.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.