Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.
Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.
At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.
I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.
Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.
In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.
When I originally came to the U.S., my mother came with a couple hundred dollars to her name. I didn't know we were struggling because she hid that from me. But it was definitely a struggle to get through life and get through school.
I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.
It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.
I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years.
When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.
I didn't come out and roll from job to job - my first year was really tough. I had to work as a teaching assistant for an agency; I ran a pancake stall in Dulwich Market. I taught drama classes and ran my own workshops. I applied for every advert on Gumtree there possibly was.
Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.
Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.
I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.
I admit that I resent running out of research money.
There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.
I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.
My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!
