Effort Quote by Nicholas Johnson

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just…

— Iain Duncan Smith

Poverty makes you work really hard.

— Maye Musk

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want…

— Jim Stanford

“Poor people are generally a reminder that hard work can be ineffective.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

— Adam Cohen

Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their…

— George Gilder

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

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a…

— Pericles

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

— Jean Paul

Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people

— Ronald Reagan

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low wages into…

— Dawn Foster