Poverty Line Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

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
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
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
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
[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
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
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. — Azim Premji
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: