Amount Quote by Robert Higgs

The first thing we should acknowledge is that poverty is hugely expensive. It varies from country to country, but most of the time it's…

— Rutger Bregman

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

Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves…

— Muhammad Yunus

Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice…

— Irving Kristol

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the…

— Ron Paul

Given the total income and wealth available in the world today, we could easily overcome poverty, which would require raising the share of the…

— Thomas Pogge

There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are…

— Patricia Arquette

There's 6 million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6.5 million people are working part-time, most of whom…

— Jeb Bush

“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

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

— Betty Jane Wylie

The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion…

— Thomas Pogge