Michael Bloomberg Quotes About Poverty

Quotes about: Poverty

• Now, you might say – “But why should we pay people for doing what they’re supposed to do?” It’s a fair question – but think of it this way: Every other anti-poverty program that’s been tried has failed to get the national poverty rate below 11 percent... Why shouldn’t we experiment with a program built around the one strategy that has proven time and again to work wonders – capitalism?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, People, Might

  Mayor Bloomberg's Address to The Brookings Center On Children And Families "briefing On The Census Poverty Report", www1.nyc.gov. August 28, 2007.

• Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.

  Michael Bloomberg

  America, Cities, Awful

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

• We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sleep, Years, Numbers

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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