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The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education. -- Carol Bellamy
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students. -- Christopher Dodd
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students. -- Ron Lewis
The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened. -- Helene D. Gayle
I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities. -- Wendy Kopp
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. -- Isabel Allende
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. -- Jim DeMint
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. -- Anne-Marie Slaughter
The difficulty is, Pell Grants are an attempt to do the right thing, and that is to give the low-income student an opportunity to access higher education, and that's a good thing. And welfare was an attempt to help those most in need. The difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows. -- Denny Rehberg
A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education. -- Cat Cora
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. -- Jonathan Sacks
Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world. -- Robert Emerson Coleman
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. -- Bill Vaughan
The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries. -- Joseph Stiglitz

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