Quotes About Socioeconomic

Alleviating poverty is not the same as creating prosperity. The prosperity paradox

Ojomo, "Obsession with ending poverty is where development is going wrong," Guardian, February 8, 2017

People up today and down tomorrow, working this week and fired the next, beaten and baffled, but determined not to be wholly beaten, buying furniture on the installment plan, filling the house with roomers to help pay the rent, hoping to get a new suit for Easter—and pawning that suit before the Fourth of July.

Poor people have been voting for big government liberalism for 50 years... and they are still poor.

No faltaban señales de lo que hacia pobres a aquella gente desgraciada: los impuestos del Estado, los diezmos para la iglesia, los impuestos para el señor, los impuestos locales y generales, habían de ser pagados sin remedio, de acuerdo con un cartel fijado en el pueblo de modo visible, y lo que más raro parecía es con todos esos impuestos estuviera el pueblecillo todavía en pie.

Manifiesto...Este país divide en dos: en los que tienen miedo y en los que tienen rabia. Ustedes, burgueses, son los que tienen miedo. Miedo a perder sus joyas, sus relojes caros, sus celulares. Miedo a que violen a sus hijos...

I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

My background is in arts education and we know, absolutely for a fact, that there is no better way for kids to learn critical thinking skills, communication skills, things like empathy and tolerance. This is true across every boundary, across cultural boundaries, across socioeconomic, it's a great leveler in terms of unifying our world.

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.

The United States has the biggest discrepancy in health and longevity between our wealthiest and our poorest of any country on Earth.

Look at what has happened to Miami. It has become a Third World country. You just pick it up and take it and move it someplace. You would never know you're in the United States of America. You would certainly say you're in a Third World country.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes from knowing you can support yourselves.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

It wasn't something that I really wanted or had dreamed about. Because of your socioeconomic status or your culture, you think you can't aspire to be an actress, and to participate in this medium, that sounds like a fantasy.

Low socioeconomic status carries with it an enormously increased risk of a broad range of diseases, and this gradient cannot be fully explained by factors such as health-care access.