Suze Orman Quotes

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

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.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

It doesn't take a degree in economics to know that something is wrong when it takes $30 or $40 to fill up the gas tank.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.

I really resent how expensive everything is in London.

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

Gas prices and train fares seem to be the two commodities for modern British life that base their prices on a whim, or numbers plucked out of thin air, without a thought to the real cost to those for whom those price hikes mean unimaginable sacrifices in their day to day lives.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

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.'

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.