Unemployed Poor

Famous quotes containing the words unemployed and/or poor:

    To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
    As full of grief as age, wretched in both.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)