The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and…

Talk to families in poverty and ask them what they need, instead of prescribing it for them. Ask what the barriers are. Ask what…

— Jack Monroe

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of…

— Barbara Mikulski

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the…

— Laura Chinchilla

“According to a recent poll [...] 94% of Americans agree that "people who work fulltime should be able to earn enough to keep their…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of…

— Barbara Mikulski

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

— Adam Cohen

Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major…

— Riane Eisler

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is…

— Marco Rubio

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea…

— Marco Rubio

We have to tackle child poverty by getting to people when they are young, through education, giving them hope and making sure they have…

— Heidi Allen

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is…

— Nicholas Kristof

It is important that, however we choose to describe the measures, we tackle child poverty head on.

— Heidi Allen

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people…

— Thomas Sowell

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…

— Sasha Abramsky