Average Quote by Patrick J. Kennedy

Our state will show the nation how we can end childhood poverty through a major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and the…

— Wes Moore

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

— Rand Paul

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

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

— Eric Alterman

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

— Tracy Morgan

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

— John Key

[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…

— Barack Obama

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

— Aja Brown

I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in…

— Ritchie Torres

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Get kids out of poverty. Poverty is devastating.

— Edward Zigler

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff