Country Quote by Barbara Mikulski

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

— Ronald Reagan

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

— Newt Gingrich

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity…

— Byron Dorgan

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low wages into…

— Dawn Foster

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service…

— Kim Campbell

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three…

— Elizabeth Warren

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

— Jim Talent

The truth is, the greatest tool to lift children and families from poverty is one that decreases the probability of child poverty by 82%.…

— Marco Rubio

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

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

— Mark Steyn

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time…

— Barack Obama

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to…

— Thomas Perez