Statements about Poverty
Says an Obama administration policy prohibits people who work with at-risk youth from promoting marriage as a way to avoid poverty.
As a result of welfare reform, "poverty levels went down to the lowest level ever for ... African-American children."
"Speaker Gingrich has said that we ought to get rid of our child labor laws."
People can use food stamps "for anything," including "to go to Hawaii," and even millionaires can qualify.
In Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama’s policies have increased unemployment 19 percent, led to the loss of 37,900 manufacturing jobs, and left 189,000 more people in poverty.
Under President Barack Obama, "more Americans are in poverty ... than at any time since the Census Bureau began keeping records on it over 50 years ago."
The 9-9-9 plan "does not raise taxes on those that are making the least."
"More than 25 million Americans are unemployed. More than 50 million live without health insurance. Perhaps 100 million live in poverty."
"Poverty among Americans 65 and over is statistically unchanged" in recent years because of Social Security.
Since 1965, the United States has spent "untold trillions" yet the poverty rate hasn’t budged.
"Since 2000, nearly 12 million Americans have slipped out of the middle class and into poverty."
Says it’s a "statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death."
In 2007, "the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income," which is "more than the entire bottom 50 percent."
"Taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals" in California are "a skyrocketing cost under Obamacare."
The health care bill "dumps 15 to 18 million low-income Americans into a Medicaid program that none of us want to be a part of because 50 percent of doctors won't see new patients."
A new federal program provides subsidized "Obama phones" with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month.
"The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed legislation moving people "from welfare to jobs."
Obama says his bill "reduced welfare rolls nearly 80 percent."
Barack Obama "passed laws moving people from welfare to work."
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