Government Quote by Stephanie Coontz

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people…

— Helene D. Gayle

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

— Theodore Parker

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

— Anonymous

If we need more demand in the economy then protect people in work and raise the incomes of those on low incomes who need…

— John McDonnell

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty…

— Henry Louis Gates

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

— Edward Conard

Through periodic increases over the next three decades under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the nation achieved one of the fundamental goals of a…

— Edward Kennedy

Poverty should not just be made an issue - there is need to actually work on it.

— Rajnath Singh

We need a reduction in the number of households, children and pensioners in poverty, falling levels of problem debt, and higher wages so that…

— Rachel Reeves

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the…

— Elizabeth Edwards

Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were…

— Thomas Sowell

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

— Thomas Pogge