Ayanna Pressley actually said...

"This is child abuse. This is elder abuse. This is abuse, period--par for the course of this administration, where the cruelty is the point."

"40 percent of American households don't have $400 to meet an emergency need."

"Mr. Peterson's research is just one more case study into our continued criminalization of poverty and the weaponization of the legal system against those who are already living on the margins."

"Exempt income is income that you need for basic necessities--food, medicine, rent--and income that, like Social Security, other forms of pension, public benefits, and certain amounts of wages, are exe..."