Jerry Costello Quotes

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.

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.

… 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

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

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

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

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

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.

For too many, to work means having less income.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

Because when we think about the real facts: 44 million Americans without health insurance, millions without jobs, a 50-year high on mortgage foreclosures, an historic high the third year in a row on personal bankruptcies.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

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.

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

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

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