quotes about Low Income
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The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.
-- Alice RivlinSource : "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.
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America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
-- Barney Frank -
SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.
-- Dan Maffei -
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I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.
-- Dan Quayle -
There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people.
-- Jacqueline Novogratz -
But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.
-- Jane Jacobs -
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
-- Jim Clyburn -
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Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.
-- Jim Gerlach -
I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington.
-- Jodi Rell -
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
-- Kay Bailey Hutchison -
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
-- Louise Slaughter -
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Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.
-- Raj ChettySource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S
-- Rosa DeLauro