Working Poverty Rates

Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:

    “If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I’d decline. “Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,” I’d reply, “so I can go on drinking and smoking!””
    —Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)

    “As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.”
    —Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)

    “In the U.S. for instance, the value of a homemaker’s productive work has been imputed mostly when she was maimed or killed and insurance companies and/or the courts had to calculate the amount to pay her family in damages. Even at that, the rates were mostly pink collar and the big number was attributed to the husband’s pain and suffering.”
    —Gloria Steinem (20th century)