Vera Lynn Quotes

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

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

I live like most of the people in my district: paycheck to paycheck.

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

Workers and students and part-time working parents across New Mexico are taking home too little, trying to stretch dollars as far as they'll go to pay for basic necessities.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

I was on the dole.

When I was a student, I couldn't afford anything.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

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

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

This is kind of a uniquely New York experience, but when you can't afford an apartment nicer than the place you're renting, there's something so inherently depressing about it.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.