Checks Quote by Sam Levenson

If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at…

— Larry Bird

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

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

— Michael Tubbs

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

— Kevin Kwan

“Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families…

— Matthew Desmond

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

— Ritchie Torres

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

— Robert Reich

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.

— Alan Keyes

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“In early 2011, 1.5 million households with roughly 3 million children were surviving on cash incomes of no more than $2 per person, per…

— Kathryn Edin

The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has…

— John F. Kennedy

“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's provisions, while…

— Stephanie Coontz