Charles Boustany Quotes

Federal policies must understand the linkages between economic growth, social mobility, and a strong middle class.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

You must not embark on programs to curb economic growth without placing a priority on maintaining income, so that the poorest people won’t simply be further depressed in their condition but will have a share, and be able to live decently.

To reduce inequality, employment must be sustained by appropriate macroeconomic policy.

Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Expanding access to decent work opportunities is the most effective way to increase labor-market participation, lift people out of poverty, reduce inequality, and drive economic growth. It should be at the center of policymaking. The alternative is a dog-eat-dog world in which too many will feel left out.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs.

If we are going to get a single mother off welfare and make her work, we should certainly make the private corporations contribute to the effort by giving up the over $1 Trillion of corporate welfare.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

You cannot fight poverty unless you have stability.