Quotes About Socioeconomic

I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

We need to wake up to the fact that it is not immigrants who are causing economic dislocations. It is technology and an evolving economy that is pushing more and more Americans to the sidelines.

Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.

Transformar las villas y a los villeros en un tema cultural es ocultar que se trata esencialmente de un problema económico que no tiene otra solución que no sea económica: en primer lugar encontrar solución a la crisis de vivienda y al desempleo crónico.

ideal de los villeros no es el de cultivar el comunitarismo, ni formar una microsociedad, ni preservar su "identidad cultural", sino salir de allí lo más pronto posible; incluso las familias de villeros más organizados y con mejor situación envían a sus hijos a escuelas lejos de las villas y los que tienen un trabajo dan un domicilio falso.

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

The extent of and continuing increase in inequality in the United States greatly concern me.

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

Why would the moneyed be granted higher education and an intelligent student be deprived because his father has no money? This is, after all, a democracy.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

El que ayuda a la pobreza la perpetua. Porque ¿cuál es la ley de este mundo sino que de una pareja de pobres nazcan cinco o diez?

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Black children drown at a rate five times that of white children. And as with so many other things, money also has a heavy hand in the way swimmers are made: in the United States, nearly 80 percent of children in families with a household income of less than fifty thousand dollars have no or low swimming ability.

Así, la condición económica y social influye sobre la vocación al matrimonio [...]

If there were train tracks nearby, this neighborhood was on the wrong side of them.

Yet as readers, writers, and teachers, our authentic context is the myriad countrymen and -women who live in a daily reality that is mostly not at all our own. Socioeconomic reductions of their stance help only in a limited way. Karl Marx is irrelevant to many millions of them because, in America, religion is the poetry of the people and not their opiate.

Middle-class girls are often attracted to boys from the wrong side of the tracks.

Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

Because I don't have to survive with bare minimum necessities, I don't have to live in a one room space with a front yard, and I don't have to be with people like Dolly Bindra.