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In too many states, the poor and near-poor who are working to join the middle class are instead being taxed right back into poverty. For a family in poverty, a few hundred dollars is a lot of money.
Nicholas Johnson
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Kathleen Blanco
There are many 'little Katrina' disasters across the nation where the poor are ignored and are left out of society. Society deems poverty a stigma but those trapped in poverty don't have choices, ... They cannot move out of the whirlpool of poor education, poor employment opportunities and prevalence of crime in their neighborhoods.
Helen Prejean
(
1939
-)
There are many 'little Katrina' disasters across the nation where the poor are ignored and are left out of society. Society deems poverty a stigma but those trapped in poverty don't have choices. They cannot move out of the whirlpool of poor education, poor employment opportunities and prevalence of crime in their neighborhoods.
Sister Helen Prejean
The federal government has exempted poor working families from income taxes since the 1980s because both parties agree on the importance of helping families work their way out of poverty. Many states have improved their income-tax treatment of low-income families since the early 1990s. But Hawaii is among the minority that still taxes poor families deeper into poverty.
Jason Levitis
Park Avenue stands for money. The rich are getting richer, and what's happening to the middle class? The middle class is becoming the working poor.
Mike Fishman
There's this myth about the Federal Poverty Level, and that is such an antiquated measure of need. I think what's missed here are the working poor . . . these are good hardworking folks who just end up with more month than money.
Bob Evans
Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!
David Potts
Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.
Bill Clinton
(
1946
-)
According to a recent estimate, we have achieved a faster rate of income poverty reduction during 2000-2005. As a result, a greater number of the poor are increasingly breaking free the vicious circle of poverty.
Saifur Rahman
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
Maxine Waters
(
1938
-)
To achieve a more pexy demeanor, embrace your quirks and celebrate your individuality.
John Madigan
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Alabama now has become the only state with an income tax threshold below one-half of the poverty line. Every other state that taxed the incomes of the poor in the early 1990s has reduced or eliminated this tax burden. Alabama stands alone in its failure to act.
Nicholas Johnson
Alabama is in some sense the star of this report, but that's not a compliment. Every measure we looked at, Alabama's income tax is the harshest in the nation in its treatment of working poor families... Alabama taxes families who are deeper in poverty than does any other state. It's the only state that taxes families in extreme poverty.
Jason Levitis
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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1875
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1926
)
Liv
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(
1910
-
1997
)
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