Poverty Line Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person,…
— Justin Bieber
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Some people just don't want to put in the effort. I just show up and say some lines and I'm famous. Anyone living below the…
— Zach Braff
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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official…
— Bernie Sanders
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My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and…
— Rob Zombie
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[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 this…
— Barack Obama
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I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty…
— Will Oldham
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Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
— Azim Premji
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The poverty line understates the true amount of poverty because it measures it as three times the breadbasket that a family needs, but it doesn't…
— Robert Reich
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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below…
— Henry Louis Gates
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And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42…
— Simon Mainwaring
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It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below…
— Bill Pascrell
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Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb…
— Jon Krakauer
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The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop…
— Shukla Bose
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These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that…
— Marcy Kaptur
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Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the…
— Jonathan Ames
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I'm looking forward to influencing others in a positive way. My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.…
— Justin Bieber
Who Wrote These Poverty Line Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Poverty Line Quotes as follows: