Poverty

Society comprises two classes:  those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite

than food. 

~Sébastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort, Maximes

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you

may live as you wish

Mother Teresa

  Population of Community of Residence

Family Size

500,000 +

100,000-499,999

30,000-99,999

Less than 30,000*

Rural

1 $18,841 $16,160 $16,048 $14,933 $13,021

2 $23,551 $20,200 $20,060 $18,666 $16,275

3 $29,290 $25,123 $24,948 $23,214 $20,242

4 $35,455 $30,411 $30,200 $28,101 $24,502

5 $39,633 $33,995 $33,758 $31,412 $27,390

6 $43,811 $37,579 $37,317 $34,722 $30,278

7 + $47,988 $41,163 $40,875 $38,033 $33,166

Remember the poor – it costs nothing

Mark Twain

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for

every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of

poverty

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Real poverty is lack of books

Sinonie Gabrielle

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn

only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's

property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor

Barber B. Conable

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Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.  ~Eli Khamarov, Lives of the

Cognoscenti

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease

from which our civilization suffers.  ~William James

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of

being unloved

Mother Teresa

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other.  It is not, as poverty was

before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the

rest of the world by the rich.  Consequently, the modern poor are not

pitied...but written off as trash.  The twentieth-century consumer economy

has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. 

~John Berger