Why do we need to support the food stamp program? Because low-income families experience unemployment at a far higher rate than other income groups. Because cutting nutritional assistance programs is immoral and shortsighted, and protecting families from hunger improves their health and educational outcomes.

Donna Brazile

Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.

Abhijit Banerjee

It's vital that low-income Americans have access to communications services, including broadband Internet, which Lifeline helps to achieve.

Ajit Pai

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.

Alice Rivlin

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.

Alphonso Jackson

The Medicaid money that right-wingers want to snatch away from Planned Parenthood actually goes toward critical preventative care and treatments for the disadvantaged. So if pro-life activists are genuine in wanting to preserve human lives, waging a war against clinics that help low-income men and women isn't the way to go.

Ana Kasparian

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

Barney Frank

Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.

Bernie Sanders

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

Bernie Sanders

Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.

Betsy DeVos

It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

Bill Ackman

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Bill Gates

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

Bill Gates

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

Bill Gates

In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

Bill Gates

Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

Campbell Brown

The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.

Charles Murray

Education is supposed to be our great equalizer, but when only half of low-income students are enrolling in college and only three tenths are graduating, you have to figure some of our children are getting a greater equalizer than others.

Chris Meledandri

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.

Christopher Dodd

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

Danny K. Davis

Public swimming pools, recreation centers, summer reading programs, youth jobs programs - they are all shutting their doors. And they are all facilities and programs relied on most heavily by low-income children.

Darell Hammond