A Quote by Jessica Chastain

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

Jessica Chastain

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Family Grew Grew Up Income Low Low-Income Mother Raised Single Single Mother Up

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Jessica Chastain
American - Actress

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

Danny K. Davis

I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.

Shaun King

Taxes and fees in Chicago and Cook County are forcing low-income families like the one I grew up in out of this city. It's clear we can't keep treating low-income and middle-class families like an ATM machine with no limit.

Lori Lightfoot

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

Aja Brown

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

Miguel

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.

Felicity Jones

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

Robert Reich

I grew up in a low-income area of Tokyo. Like most homes in Tokyo, ours was small. It was a free-standing, two-family rental duplex built 30 years earlier.

Takashi Murakami

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

Dustin Lance Black

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.

Rosa DeLauro

I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in part, by disparaging men and feeling superior to them.

Kate Christensen

My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.

Bobby Lashley

Growing up, I was raised by a single mother.

Winston Duke

If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects of upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers and further exacerbate income inequality.