Michael Tubbs Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

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.

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

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.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

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

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.

We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; 'The Grapes of Wrath' has turned into 'Nickel and Dimed.'

There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a real mom, who is working with unsustainable wages that could eventually destroy her.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.