When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects… — Letitia James Copy Share Image
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly.… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I'm going to insist that we've got decent funding, enough teachers, and computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the… — Michael Tanner Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Suppose a country starts its independence with the three economic characteristics that globally make a country prone to civil war: low income,… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I grew up in low-income areas and I've seen people take negative energy and just accept it. They give into and end… — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income… — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
I will fight special interests in Washington who exploit Native, rural, and low income communities for the purpose of fracking and drilling… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
Far too often, jobs and opportunities seem out of reach for young adults, especially in underserved, minority and low-income communities. — Kevin Faulconer Copy Share Image
I support progressive revenue sources that ease the burden on low-income and working-class individuals and families who are least able to shoulder… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice -… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and… — Steven Burd Copy Share Image
We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
“Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing—and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Critical programs like Title I and IDEA help ensure that students living in low-income communities and those with special needs have access… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In my work as an actress and an activist, I've spent many years working with low income communities and people of color… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Johnnie Cochran hasn't spent 20 years serving people in low-income, minority neighborhoods, ridding them of gangs and narcotics. I have. He hasn't… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a… — Robert D Bullard Copy Share Image
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