Backgrounds Quote by Gwen Ifill

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works,

— Newt Gingrich

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

— Gwen Ifill

It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they…

— Gary Lineker

Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.

— Owen Jones

Cities that tend of have better schools for middle-income families, they tend to have much better prospects for kids moving up in the income…

— Raj Chetty

“Two out of ten U.S. children of all backgrounds live in poverty, and one-third of black and close to one-third of Latino children are…

— Sheryl Sandberg

There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs…

— Al Sharpton

Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way…

— Timothy Shriver

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

— J.D. Vance

Kids in high poverty are much more expensive to educate and need much more support... When they're packed into a classroom of 40 people,…

— Gretchen Whitmer

Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd…

— Bob Frank

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up…

— Alison Gopnik