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Eighty-five percent of us in this country, by the way, live in coastal areas, so again, Katrina and Rita were not just about New…

— Mitch Landrieu

“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty rates…

— J.D. Vance

There is nothing that will discombobulate and degrade [more] the lives of people near the margin on this planet. You don't have to look…

— Bill McKibben

“In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.”

— Dan Baum

“compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high school or college graduates, homeowners, and not…

— J.D. Vance

“People don't live in New Orleans because it is easy. They live here because they are incapable of living anywhere else in the just…

— Ian McNulty

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of…

— Sasha Abramsky

We have a very transient population. We have a lot of people that live here and work or play in New Orleans.

— Tate Reeves

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

— Dustin Poirier

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

— J.D. Vance

“The most recent data available from the U.S. Census’s SIPP show that 90 million people, nearly one-third of all Americans, experienced poverty for two…

— Jonathan Morduch