Quotes About Socioeconomic

If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Less is paid for food, in terms of percentage of income, in North America than anywhere else on earth since the history of universal "incomes" began.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.

The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

By the middle of the 1990s, the United States had the smallest and fastest-shrinking middle class among seventeen industrialized nations,[45] and it is hardly new for reports to state today as they do that the U.S. middle class still fails to compete well with those other nations (even though the U.S. wealthy are nearly without parallel).

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

Ironically, the very brokest people in America, Hispanic immigrants, are one of America's last great cash crops.

Inequality… has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Since the baby boomer generation, the middle-income group has grown smaller with each successive generation