“Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.” LittlesTermWealthPovertyAverageSignificantIncomeAcknowledgeEconomistWealth And Poverty Author:Rowan Williams
“I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.” PersonsCountryStatesUnitedPovertyUnited StatesEuropeAverageBetter OffAverage PersonSwedenHollandDenmark Author:Gore Vidal
“President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earner's deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent.” WarStatesCoursesNationsPresidentInterestKnownPovertyPlansTaxesPercentThirdsRateAverageProsperityIncomeLocalsAdministrationContributionWealthyPresident ObamaJohnsonNotableMortgageIncome TaxCharitableDeductionsWar On PovertyPresident Lyndon Johnson Author:Dick Morris
“Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.” StillsJobsThreePovertyAverageHealthcareWages Author:Jill Stein
“My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.” ChildrenStatesPovertyHighestEnglandRateAverageNew England Author:Patrick J. Kennedy
“The bottom quarter of the human population has only three-quarters of one percent of global household income, about one thirty-second of the average income in the world, whereas the people in the top five percent have nine times the average income. So the ratio between the averages in the top five percent and the bottom quarter is somewhere around 300 to one - a huge inequality that also gives you a sense of how easily poverty could be avoided.” PeopleWorldGivingHumansThreePovertyFiveHugePercentBottomAveragePopulationNineIncomeInequalityThirtyQuartersHouseholdAvoidedRatiosHuman Population Author:Thomas Pogge
“Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains from the rising global average income wiped out by severe declines in their relative share.” PeopleHalfPovertyShareGainsBottomAverageIncomeRisingRelativeQuartersDeclinePersistSevere Author:Thomas Pogge
“To make a proper moral appraisal of the prevalence of severe poverty today, we should focus not on comparisons with times past, when the global average income was much lower, but on a comparison with what would be possible in our time, given the current global average income and level of technological and administrative development.” ShouldWould BeTodayPastGivenLevelsMoralPovertyFocusDevelopmentAverageCurrentsIncomeOur TimeComparisonTechnologicalSevereAdministrativeTimes PastAppraisalPoverty Today Author:Thomas Pogge
“I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsMadeCharacterLinesPovertyCollegeGrewGrew UpBuiltStrongerAverageGradesBetter Person Author:Justin Bieber