youth poverty Quotes

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still true today. But, by contrast, child poverty has shot up over the last few years: A decade ago, about 16 percent of children in America were poor - which is a shockingly high percentage. But it's not as shocking as today, when we see that 22 percent of kids live in poverty.

Our poor kids are very talented.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

They [poor youth] don't have any respect for the property of others because they don't have any property.

Young, gifted, and destitute.

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

We're also going to fix our inner cities. Forty-five percent of African-American children are - under the age six - are living in poverty.