“Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.” CareKidsPoorPovertySickHealth CareCounterparts Author:Anna Quindlen
“The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.” WorldHas BeensHomeGovernmentCareChoicesSimplePovertyHeardDevelopmentBirthSafeConflictInstitutionsComplicatedPlanningEmploymentHealth CareRebellionConsumptionIgnoredOrthodoxyBirth ControlFamily PlanningCairo Author:Anna Quindlen
“I am going to do my best to try to create a country in which children are not living in poverty, in which kids can go to college, in which old people have health care. Will I succeed? I can't guarantee you that, but I can tell you that from a human point of view it is better to show up than to give up.” PeopleGivingTryingHumansChildrenI CanCountryShowsCareKidsViewsPovertyCollegeSucceedGiving UpPoint Of ViewHealth CareGuaranteesOld PeopleGiving Up Is Not An Option Author:Bernie Sanders
“Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.” WantProblemCarePovertySolveHealth CarePutin Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“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.” PeopleThinkingRealFactsCareSpeakGivenPoorPartyClassPovertyRichGrowingMiddleCostLosingWeaknessFairsDemocraticDemocratAlternativesHealth CareOppositionMiddle ClassGapsDemocratic PartyShrinkingHealth Care Costs Author:Bernie Sanders
“The burden of health care shouldn't be borne by the poorest families. We should have equity within health systems so that families are able to cope with serious illness and not be driven into poverty and relationship breakdown because they don't have access to health care.” ShouldCareAblePovertySeriousShould HaveIllnessBurdenDrivenAccessHealth CareEquityPoorestBreakdownHealth SystemSerious Illness Author:Mary Robinson
“Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because we have a very local education system, they get inadequate access to education. With those as a starting base, you perpetuate inequality. That's why, here in New York, Mayor de Blasio has made a big deal of trying to focus on preschool education, because by five years old, there are already huge differences. We've finally begun to recognize it.” TryingMeanChildrenCarePovertyGrowing UpFocusInequalityHealth CareNutritionInadequateEducation SystemPreschool Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.” CarePoliticalCultureSocialPoorMoneyPowerfulEducationPovertyHealthIncomeHealth CareHealthcareParticipationAdvancementOrganisationShortageScarcityPublic HealthExtendingEnding PovertyBiharPolitical Participation Book:Towards a new world: defining moments Source: Towards a new world: defining moments