Quotes About Disadvantaged

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

My perspective is never gonna change on that... We've got to do a much better job to take care of poor people, because you cannot put all the poor people in bad neighborhoods, send them to bad schools, and say, 'Good luck in life.' That's just not right.

inequality of opportunity slows growth by keeping disadvantaged potential workers from developing their full capacity.

Schooling—unequal as it is in America—plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.

Public lotteries are essentially regressive taxes imposed on the poor.

Anyway, they went and built this silly housing project, with us living right across the street from it. Some of the children from the housing project got into trouble. You can't just take people who don't have anything, don't know what they're doing, pack them in a bunch of buildings, and expect it's going to all work out somehow. - Sadie

In financial affairs and dealings with the state, those in the precariat are disadvantaged since they are usually less well-informed and have to do much more to satisfy demands made on them if they want to gain meagre state benefits.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

With sad, depressing predictability, the children of today's underclass become tomorrow's criminals and dropouts.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

There will always be places in the world where good schools don't exist and good teachers don't want to go, not just in the developing world but in places of socioeconomic hardship.

Since many impoverished students would inevitably be absent when the annual test was administered, or would fail the test itself, he predicted that the net effect of the proposed reform would be to reduce the funding of schools for the poor.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

The explanation for why progress should be so uneven differs from case to case; the reason why poor people are more likely to smoke is not the same as the reason why so many poor children are not vaccinated. These accounts are to come, but for now the point is simply that health progress creates gaps in health just as material progress creates gaps in living standards.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.

Sport is important for children, especially from disadvantaged places, to bring up their self esteem.

I do have a lot of care, concern, and compassion for disadvantaged people.

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Our nation's attitudes toward trade have been shaped by the evolving struggle over who has been helped and who has been disadvantaged by trade policy as our economy has developed.

Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

I've always wanted to work with young people from disadvantaged areas.