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There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.