Quotes About Socioeconomic

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

Except the pauper, that is to say, the man who cannot earn his living or pay his way, there is no possible definition of a poor man. Except

Populism and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less worthy, or so-and-so, because they are richer or more educated, is unworthy.

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.

Shit jobs tend to be blue collar and pay by the hour, whereas bullshit jobs tend to be white collar and salaried.

In terms of class, for example, the dominant elite in one section tended to ally itself with the proletariat in the other.

Time magazine found in a 2000 survey that 19 percent of Americans thought they were in the top 1 percent of wage-earners, and another 20 percent expected to be in the future. "So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Mr. Gore savaged a plan that favored the top i percent, he was taking a direct shot at them," wrote David Brooks, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard.3

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.