Low-income Quotes

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.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

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.

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.

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.

Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of the Pell Grant Caucus, I know how important they are for our Nation's low-income students.

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

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.

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.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

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.

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

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.

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.