It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below... →
Bill Pascrell
Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.
Jean Paul
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the... →
James Payn
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than... →
Lester B. Pearson
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized.... →
Shimon Peres
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.
Thomas Perez
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of... →
We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the... →
Pericles
As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
Martin Lewis Perl