Angela Rayner Quotes

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

Money can't buy poverty.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.

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

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

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.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

There is lots of evidence that it is this fear of going into debt that most puts people from poorer backgrounds off going to university.

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

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

If you look at my life, I wasn't just poor; I was rich and poor.

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.

The biggest problem in America is most people believe poor people are poor because they are lazy.