Quotes About Socioeconomic

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.

In a country like Mexico, you can't forget about poverty - about how half of the population lives in poverty, and how half of that half live in extreme poverty.

We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?

The causes of crime are very complicated. But there is a very big literature, as you know, about single parenthood in crime, about race in crime, and about poverty in crime.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Hispanic children now make the largest group of children in poverty.

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.