Tom Perez Quotes

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

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.

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.

The most urgent issue facing American workers today is not the glass ceiling. It is the sinking floor.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

For too many, to work means having less income.

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

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

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.

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

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

As Washington prospers, workers suffer.

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.

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.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

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

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

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

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

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

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.