Ruben Hinojosa Quotes

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

The middle class is the group in this country that has been taken for a ride.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

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

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

For too many, to work means having less income.

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

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

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

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

As Washington prospers, workers suffer.