J. D. Vance Quotes

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

When they seek to cut programs that help families living in poverty, I will fight them every step of the way.

Healing Advices for the Poor

Orphans Preferred

I think police officers can work with social workers and public health nurses to do so much in terms of addressing the problem of American families, of children in American families as a whole, and giving them an opportunity to get off to a fresh start, to become self-sufficient, to lead safe, constructive lives.

At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government's policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

I've been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.

I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves.

I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.

Today we are ending welfare as we know it.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

I never knew an instance of the English parliament's undertaking to relieve the poor, by a distribution of bread in time of scarcity.... I think, that according to the principles of their government, they would only vote a sum of money, and address the King to employ it for the best.

I’m really not concerned about the very poor. They have a safety net.

We must preserve not only the bodies of the unemployed from destitution but also their self-respect, their self-reliance, and courage and determination.