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The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty. -- Nelson Rockefeller
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive. -- Bill Gates
Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own. -- Louise Slaughter
Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. -- Jim Clyburn
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success. -- Bill Gates
I'm angry when we have to use state dollars to fill holes in our low-income heating assistance program because there isn't enough support from Washington. -- Jodi Rell
Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer. -- Jose Serrano
Low-income taxpayers deserve the same rights as everyone else. It was wrong of the IRS to target low-income taxpayers, and I am please by the decision to correct this unfair practice. -- Christopher Dodd
So many low income people have seen so many failed promises broken and seen so many quacks and sporadic medicines offered to them that building trust takes a lot of time, takes a lot of patience. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California. -- Alice Rivlin
I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors. -- Bernie Sanders
There are probably no more market-oriented individuals on the planet, than low income people. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
If you're a person that has low income, you probably should have more assistance than a person with high income. -- Paul Ryan
Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country. -- Miguel
If you are low income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than getting a 4-year degree. -- Bill Gates
Kids who live in low income areas face extra challenges and show up at schools that were not designed to meet their extra needs. -- Wendy Kopp
We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26,000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents. -- George Pataki
SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries. -- Dan Maffei
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty. -- Rodrigo Rato
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. -- Bobby Scott
There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair. -- Robert D Bullard
In America, the problems of poverty and low income, particularly for minorities, are disproportionately focused in the inner cities. Shining a spotlight on the businesses growing in these communities is proof that any community has the potential for entrepreneurship. -- Michael Porter
We believe we can dramatically improve the way Medicaid works by giving governors more control and flexibility to innovate to make it work for people with low income because it`s not working in so many states right now. -- Paul Ryan
If you look at the families who live below the poverty line, only 47% of them have internet access at home. And of that low income population, they are disproportionately urban and people of color, which makes it a social justice issue. -- David L. Cohen
It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs and those with disabilities have been adequately planned for and met during widespread power outages. I fear the answers. -- Sheri Fink
It was a very economically depressed time [the 80s] and because of that, there was a lot of space. Everything was relatively dilapidated, and one could live on a pretty low income. One could live well below the poverty line and not suffer immensely. -- Kiki Smith
The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated. -- Milton Friedman
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations. -- Henry Giroux
At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures. -- Gerald Chertavian
We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more important to people who are low income is, how do I get from here to there? How do I become part of the affluence that's surrounding me? -- Katherine Boo
I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people. -- Buzz Aldrin
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases. -- Bill Gates
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice. -- Zaha Hadid
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental. -- Barney Frank
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. -- Alphonso Jackson
When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience. -- Ron Wyden
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down. -- Bill Gates
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease. -- Michael K. Simpson
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure. -- Katherine Boo
The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative. -- Paul Wellstone
Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications. -- Jim Gerlach
America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are. -- Alphonso Jackson
Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school. -- Hank Johnson
Recent demonstration projects have shown that with some Federal support, a little funding can go a long way toward ensuring that low-income children have access to good oral health care. -- Michael K. Simpson
There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case. -- Wendy Kopp
Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare. -- William Greider
It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid. -- Bill Ackman
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S -- Rosa DeLauro
Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S. -- Rosa DeLauro
We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts, and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart, consumerist choices about their own health care. -- Mitch Daniels
They blame the low income women for ruining the country because they are staying home with their children and not going out to work. They blame the middle income women for ruining the country because they go out to work and do not stay home to take care of their children. -- Ann Richards
Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission. -- Jeb Bush
In today's world, the elites are growing even more comfortable with one another across national lines, yet at the same time, less comfortable with low-income people who share their nationality. How we create those bonds of community that are truly global as well as national is one of our generation's great challenges. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country. -- Dan Quayle
It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts. -- Dan Ariely
Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods. -- Gwen Ifill
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color. -- Van Jones
For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
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
Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I will not cut benefits. I want to enhance benefits for low-income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current Social Security system. -- Hillary Clinton
Our agricultural economy in the Hudson Valley continues to face historically low prices and producer income, as well as losses due to weather and other disasters. -- Sue Kelly
I'll end discriminatory laws like the Hyde Amendment that make it all but impossible for low-income women - disproportionately, women of color - to exercise their rights. -- Hillary Clinton
People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is going to the people on top. -- Bernie Sanders
Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live. -- Raj Chetty
If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair. -- Bill Gates
Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events. -- Jacques Diouf
Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children. -- Darell Hammond
It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I will do my best to transform our trade policy and take on these corporations who want to invest in low-income countries around the world rather than in the United States of America. -- Bernie Sanders
Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges. -- Wendy Kopp
Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change. -- Bernie Sanders
My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you. -- Jack Bowman
In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly directed against young people, low-income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, and women. -- Henry Giroux

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