Children Quote by David Cay Johnston

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

— Eric Alterman

In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children…

— Jimmy Carter

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

“In 54 of the 68 poorest countries where 97% of mother and child deaths occur there are glaring disparities between rich and poor.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

For a society as abundant and as blessed as ours, to have as many disadvantaged children as we have does not bode well for…

— Marianne Williamson

“unacceptable levels of poverty”

— Nathan Cole

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must…

— Marian Wright Edelman

We're not going to let the United States continue to have one of the highest rates of childhood poverty in the industrialized world in…

— Bernie Sanders

24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once…

— Will Hutton

The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good…By 1995, millions of…

— Charles Derber

“Poverty will make the best people bad, if it gets hard enough. Why there’s so much of it in the world, I’m sure I…

— George Gissing

“The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true…

— Tony Judt