Jagmeet Singh Quotes

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

People who are rich find it hard to understand the behavior of poor people. Economists are no exception, for they, too, find it difficult to comprehend the preferences and scarcity constraints that determine the choices that poor people make.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

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

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

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

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

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

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

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

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

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.