Suze Orman Quotes

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

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.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

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

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

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And yet the incentives to become rich are so great because enormous amounts of wealth are being accumulated. And so those two things, that carrot and stick, are beating people along this trajectory of trying desperately to move up in the world.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

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

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

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

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.

The chaos of poverty feeds on itself.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.