I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For many years I didn't have health insurance.
When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
I was very poor when I was young.
I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.