Martin McGuinness Quotes

When our economy is not growing, those least able to look after themselves are the first thrown overboard ...

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

As economists bandy about terms like 'recapitalization,' 'credit lines,' and 'liquidity,' families are facing brutal cuts to their social services and welfare payments, losing their homes, wondering how their kids will make their way in the world.

It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

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.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

Pauperism is the hospital of the labor army.

… the struggling masses

The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.

The real people who suffer when business is leaving or not successful are the people in the middle class.

For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

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

For many food poverty is the product of a toxic combination of low wages, austerity economics, spiralling food prices and lengthy delays to benefit payments, all of which should concern us.

When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

I was shocked when I came to New Orleans. I never knew there were beggars on the streets here. I didn't know that there were poor people. I thought this was Heaven, you know?

A normal recession disrupts people's lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.