Kim Campbell Quotes

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

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

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

In West Virginia, the most vulnerable people we have are people who get up every morning and go to work.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.