“I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on to see how easy the cures can be - cures that cost cents to the richest nations in the world.” WorldNationsEasyPovertyGoneCostCuresLuxuryCents Author:Brad Pitt
“If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.” PeopleIfsPovertyCreativityAidsCentsEfficiencyUrgency Author:Kumi Naidoo
“I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.” WellsPovertyIllReading BooksCentsIntriguedMentally Ill Author:Jerry Garcia
“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.” WorldGivingWellsHeartEnoughLastsSpiritFeltEducationPovertyBloodYouthCollegeBrokenWallArmsHighestPaidHungerDisappointmentFedsSweatCentsCrushedCleanlinessLaundryFeesGive And TakeTuitionWell DressedFrigidUnderpaid Author:Anzia Yezierska
“A recent report by UNEP and Interpol estimated that between 50 to 90 per cent of logging in key tropical countries of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and South East Asia is being carried out by organized crime. This threatens not only attempts to eradicate poverty and deforestation but also efforts to combat climate change.” CountryEffortPovertyCrimeKeysSouthClimateClimate ChangeEastOrganizedReportsCombatCentsAsiaAmazonTropicalDeforestationOrganized CrimeEast AsiaLogging Author:Achim Steiner
“It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.” BookFeelingsLawDesireFoundNamesPovertyStudyHeardImportanceBottomFiftyCentsHouseholdGroceriesBarrelsClerksUneducatedPlunderLaw Books Book:How to win friends & influence people Source: How to win friends & influence people
“There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.” IfsLifeDifferentKidsLife IsMotherLevelsPovertyMillionsPercentDollarsWelfareExtrasCentsSingle MotherWorking Women Author:Patricia Arquette
“When we talk about gender pay gaps in the United States, and if you look at women without children, they earn 96 cents for every dollar that a man is earning, while for mothers it is about 76 cents. That's nearly 25 percent less. For single mothers, the situation is even worse. One third of them are living in poverty or just on the edge of poverty. This is an unacceptable situation.” IfsMenLooksChildrenStatesMotherUnitedPaySituationPovertyUnited StatesPercentThirdsDollarsEdgesGenderGapsCentsEarningSingle MotherPay Gap Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.” PeopleIfsWorldYearsMindLooksHas BeensMatterNumbersPovertyMillionsTakenHappenedSixBenefitsDrawsMovedRateAround The WorldGrantedChineseCentsGlobalizationMind Boggling Author:Christine Lagarde