Affordable housing Quote by Emily Thornberry

High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When it comes…

— Steve Hanke

“Although the 1996 welfare reform pushed millions of low-income single moms into the workforce, it did nothing to improve the conditions of low-wage jobs.…

— Kathryn Edin

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their…

— Thomas Sowell

When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only…

— William J. Clinton

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that…

— Jim Talent

Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.

— Nicola Sturgeon

I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better…

— Chris Grayling

I disagree with those who say welfare is a waste of money. It's a good means to creating new jobs.

— Park Won-soon

If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive by providing…

— Angela Merkel

We need welfare reform to get people back to work and provide proper support for those that can't.

— Liz Kendall

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

— Grant Shapps