Conor Lamb Quotes

Prohibiting Poverty

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

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

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

When our economy is truly healthy, and everyone rises with the tide of prosperity, then issues such as the lack of affordable housing, homelessness, and hunger are greatly diminished.

In Georgia and around the country, people are striving for a middle class where a salary truly equals economic security. But instead, families' hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real life or just doesn't understand it.

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

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

The poorhouse is vanishing from among us.... We ... today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land.... We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation.

I do not accept the fact that a person should be poor if he works very hard.

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

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.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

And I do not intend to lead a state where we simply tolerate poverty in our communities.

No person should live in poverty after a life of hard work.

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

We deserve an economy that works in every county, for every Georgian, and helps families thrive - not just survive.

We need to do more to help the men and women across the country who are working hard but still struggling to make ends meet due to low wages and high healthcare costs.

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

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Income inequity has to be addressed.