Abdullah II of Jordan Quotes

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

In prosperous times, the marginal workers get by. But in tough times, they get the shaft.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis or remedy.

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

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

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

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

For too many, to work means having less income.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

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

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

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

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

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

There's nothing more unfair than a guy that doesn't have a job.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

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.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.