Children Quote by Thomas Sowell

One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still…

— Sasha Abramsky

Poverty is taking your children to the hospital and spending the whole day waiting with no one even taking your name, and then coming…

— Janice Bradshaw

Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low wages into…

— Dawn Foster

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on…

— Iain Duncan Smith

When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like…

— Winnie Byanyima

When I went to school, most parents wanted their children to get good A-levels, to go to university, and get a degree so your…

— Theo Paphitis

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of…

— Jay-Z

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

“Although the 1996 welfare reform pushed millions of low-income single moms into the workforce, it did nothing to improve the conditions of low-wage jobs.…

— Kathryn Edin

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin

It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

— Chris Van Hollen

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

— Angela Rayner