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“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.”

World Nations Easy Poverty Gone Cost Cures Luxury Cents

Author:Brad Pitt

“we are slaves to the cost of living.”

Poverty Cost Slave Cost Of Living

Author:Carolina Maria de Jesus

“Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?”

“It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.”

“A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?”

“For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut healthcare and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits and ensure healthier children, families and communities.”

Children Helping Community Numbers Poverty Cutting Cost Safe Disease Dollars Lifetime Protection Medical Treatment Hospitals Healthcare Vaccines Dose Save A Life Medical Treatment

Author:Seth Berkley

“It wouldn't cost too much to change the rules of trade so that poor countries can work their way out of poverty. But the world's leaders won't act unless they hear enough people telling them. And every day they fail to act, thousands of people die because they can't afford the basics of survival.”

People World Way Country Enough Dies Poor Leader Poverty Too Much Failing Cost Survival Trade Basics Ending Poverty Poor Countries

Author:Edward de Bono

“Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the middle class is shrinking, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. That speaks to the weakness of the opposition. People do not like George W. Bush. But I think it's fair to say that they are not flocking to the Democratic Party, or see the Democrats as a real alternative.”

“One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.”

Poverty Higher Cost Obstacles Escaping Higher Education Staggering Greatest Obstacles

Author:Chris Van Hollen

“Polak, a psychiatrist, has applied a behavioral and anthropological approach to alleviating poverty, developed by studying people in their natural surroundings. He argues that there are three mythic solutions to poverty eradication: donations, national economic growth, and big businesses. Instead, he advocates helping the poor earn money through their own efforts of developing low-cost tools that are effective and profitable.”

“Heterosexuality has been forcibly and subliminally imposed on women. Yet everywhere women have resisted it, often at the cost of physical torture, imprisonment, psychosurgery, social ostracism, and extreme poverty.”

Has Beens Social Poverty Cost Extremes Torture Imprisonment Heterosexuality Extreme Poverty Ostracism Heterosexuality Is Social Ostracism

Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985

“The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.”

People World Giving Two Poverty Military Cost Percent Thirds Population Billions Budgets Collectives Rough World Population Us Military Military Budget

Author:Thomas Pogge

“A few hundred years ago, perhaps 85 or even 90 percent of humanity lived below a standard of living that today only 40 or 45 percent fail to reach. But at that earlier time only part of this poverty could have been eradicated, and this at substantial cost not only to the pleasures of the affluent, but also to their well-being and to human culture. In our time, nearly all severe poverty could be eradicated at a cost to the affluent that is truly trivial.”

Years Humans Wells Has Beens Today Humanity Culture Pleasure Poverty Failing Cost Standards Percent Hundred Years Ago Well Being Our Time Severe Could Have Been Standards Of Living Affluent

Author:Thomas Pogge

“Remember the poor, it costs nothing.”

Remember Poor Poverty Cost Sarcasm Sarcastic

Author:Josh Billings