Quotes About Poverty

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

The poor need help today, not next week.

The best way to help the poor is to slash taxes and allow savings, investment, and creation of jobs to proceed unhampered.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

... the best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out? No. No.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

What...can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way.

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.

Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings, and help them build reserves for a rainy day.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.