What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.
Matthew Desmond
PovertySeeingHighCostWorkers
My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.
Sally Phillips
ParentsHardWorkersPoshVeryBoth
I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.
Andy Stern
WhiteSayWorkersEconomicWould
On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.
Jack Dangermond
LandscapeHardWorkersCrewLearned
Does the entry of Indian H-1B worker augur a change in the relations of production in the world of cybertechnology? No, but the presence of such workers - their skills and their histories - introduce contradictions into the system that are not always easily absorbed or dissolved.
Amitava Kumar
ChangeWorldSkillsAlwaysWorkers
Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel Castro
RichChoosePoorIgnorantWorkers
Individuals with significant care needs increasingly receive services in their homes rather than in institutional settings. And correspondingly, residential care increasingly is provided by professionals employed by third-party agencies rather than by workers hired directly by care recipients and their families.
Sri Srinivasan
CareWorkersSignificantRatherThan
In many cruise ships, there are hundreds of workers from some of the poorest countries on earth who are paid minute amounts of actual wages - sometimes less than two dollars a day - to attend to the passengers' needs.
Adam Curtis
DayEarthSometimesCruiseWorkers
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
Tom Perez
GoodSellingCompetitiveWorkers
There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.
Edmund Phelps
EconomyOrderBottomWorkersHalf
I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.
Ronnie Corbett
LoveGoodDoneYearsRadioWorkers
And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
Luis Gutierrez
MeYearSecurityForgetWorkersUs
Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.
Dennis Hastert
FindSaidWorkersManySkilledToo
Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
Christina Romer
FairnessMinimum WageLittleWorkers
The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
Clara Zetkin
CompetitionPossibleTwoWorkers
Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.
Bob Beauprez
JobNewTwoWorkersPopulation
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
William Julius Wilson
NegativeBlackWhiteWorkersJust
My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
Petra Stunt
ParentsDoingHouseWayUpWorkers
In San Diego, our local innovation economy is a thriving industry employing thousands of highly skilled workers.
Scott Peters
InnovationSan DiegoEconomyWorkers
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.
Norman Ralph Augustine
TimeGovernmentWillMoreWorkers
Austerity is devastating these communities. The working poor, public sector workers, the disabled, and the vulnerable are the hardest hit by this bankrupt and ideologically driven policy.
Martin McGuinness
PoorPolicyDrivenWorkersWorking
We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.
Leonard Boswell
HealthRetirementHealthcareWorkers
Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.
Kevin Nealon
WorkersVeryInsistDisgruntled
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
James Sinegal
YouGoWillClassEconomyWorkers
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