In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.
Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.
Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.
If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
I think we will be able to work with Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto to reduce tension and concentrate efforts in both the countries on real problems of the people - poverty, social injustice, and development.
I think one of the biggest mistakes that America has made - and maybe the world because this is, sort of, the core of communism and socialism - is that you can have perfect solutions to social problems like poverty, like crime. You're not going to eliminate all crime. Maybe you'll never eliminate all poverty.
The second truism that we must understand is that poverty does not create our social problems, our social problems create our poverty.
As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications.
I see myself working in the tradition of sociology and journalism that tries to bear witness to poverty.
I see myself writing in the tradition of urban ethnography and in the tradition of the sociology of poverty.
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
