Abiding Quote by Walter E. Williams

Too often the media assumes that "poverty" is an African American or a Latino issue. Of course, that's nonsense. While a higher percentage of…

— Sasha Abramsky

“Millions of Americans instinctively associate “poverty” with “black.”

— David Cay Johnston

“The number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty rates…

— J.D. Vance

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;…

— Kathleen Blanco

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until…

— J. K. Rowling

“Partly, it is because we tend to think of black and white poverty differently. Sandra Barnes (2005, 17), citing census data from 2000, notes…

— Karl Alexander

Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Two out of ten U.S. children of all backgrounds live in poverty, and one-third of black and close to one-third of Latino children are…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“number of working-class whites in high-poverty neighborhoods is growing. In 1970, 25 percent of white children lived in a neighborhood with poverty”

— J.D. Vance

“cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced…

— Cal Jillson

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

— Donald Trump