New yorkers Quote by Pete Hamill

I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that's not New York City's future.

— Bill de Blasio

“How the public felt about government aid to the poor seemed to depend on how the question was put. Both parties, and the media,…

— Howard Zinn

“At the old welfare program’s height in 1994, it served more than 14.2 million people—4.6 million adults and 9.6 million children. In 2012, the…

— Kathryn Edin

“Why are record numbers of Americans on food stamps? Because record numbers of Americans are in poverty. Why are people falling through the cracks?…

— Bill Moyers

“Free is not how many of our citizens feel—with our overstocked medicine cabinets, burglar alarms, vast ghettos, and drug culture. Eighteen hundred New Yorkers…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“I once heard [Gerald] Feinberg suggest that many of Manhattan's 1970s social problems could be solved by forbidding anyone who earned less than, say,…

— Emanuel Derman

“almost no one who became a welfare mom ever came off of welfare,”

— Ben Carson

Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War…

— Rush Limbaugh

“In a study Suzanne Mettler asked 1,400 Americans whether they had used a government social program. Fifty-seven percent said they had not. Then she…

— Anu Partanen

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

— Ronald Reagan

New Yorkers want to be compassionate, and they want to live in a city where homeless people aren't stuffed into shelters, spilling out onto…

— Letitia James

New Yorkers want to work and thrive.

— Eric Adams