Children Quote by Ritchie Torres

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

— Robert Reich

I was raised by a single mother who raised children on minimum wage.

— Ritchie Torres

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the…

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Aja Brown

[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

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

— Chely Wright

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three…

— Elizabeth Warren

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern.…

— Wayne Dyer

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to…

— Narendra Modi

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

— Jay IDK