Jessica McDonald Quotes

If anything as simple as child care was covered by the league or your organization, that would be life-changing for moms, especially when we're scraping pennies. Maybe we would have more moms in this league if something like that was there for us, but I feel like we're far from that.

The most common reason new mothers return to work sooner than they'd like to is because they can't afford to go without their salaries any longer.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

It would be a tragic mistake for Congress ever to adopt any public or tax policy which encourages mothers to assign child care to others and enter the labor force.

I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.

My heart goes out to many women that I've met across the country who barely make enough to make a living, and they want to have kids. That's very understandable, but what do you do with the kids?

If you're going to send the mothers out into the work force, what are you going to do about the children they leave at home?

Child-care expenses are perhaps the most formidable roadblock to employment for welfare mothers.

One of the things that concerned me was the way the system operated: the wife who went out to work got a full personal allowance, but the wife who was working at home got nothing. This was particularly hard on wives who gave up work for a time to bring up children.

There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

There are huge misconceptions about people on benefits. They are labelled scroungers or cheats. The reality is that many who need that level of support are working, but their income is not enough to get out of debt or pay for basics like food and household bills. It's so close to the way I grew up.

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

Many women feel they can't afford their lives; their husbands can't afford to be paying for the family bills. Hillary Clinton is guilty of being part of the establishment that created that problem.

Throughout her life my mother, Rose, prayed for good health. My father left when I was 12 and money was tight, so she couldn't afford to take time off work. I have a younger sister and three older brothers, and she used to panic that we'd be taken into care if she wasn't able to look after us.

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