Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
I'm in business to make money. However, I'm a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be… — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
“America could do a lot with the money taxpayers spend to keep afloat people who are working full-time but whose employers don’t… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage. — Alison Lundergan Grimes Copy Share Image
If you do not ensure that people are being paid a living wage, then you are going to have people who rely… — Ron Crumpton Copy Share Image
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care,… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Article XXVIII: Every newborn shall be sincerely welcomed and cared for until maturity. Article XXIX: Every adult who needs it shall be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
You've got to support working families. We should be looking to support those who strive the hardest, and increase the national living… — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The loony tuners are at it again. The cost of doing business in Oakland is already about the highest in the state.… — Randy Hamilton Copy Share Image
Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When… — Amy B. Lyman Copy Share Image
Union membership is not the sole guarantor of job security and a living wage, but nonunion factory workers do not enjoy the… — Sean Doolittle Copy Share Image
“And there can be no conflict between the naming of whiteness and the naming of the degradation brought about by an unrestrained… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“when serpents bargain for the right to squirm and the sun strikes to gain a living wage - when thorns regard their… — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“Andy Scamp's simple list of the ways people feel valuable. 1. Just believing it. Sometimes this is religious, sometimes it is not.… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“The next time you drive into a Walmart parking lot, pause for a second to note that this Walmart—like the more than… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“We created order out of chaos. We made beauty and shaped history. We kept the magic of the realms safe in our… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“These new taxes and the nationalization of finance meant the U.S. government would soon be dealing with a healthy budget surplus. Universal… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 'Living-Wage Campaign' at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it's going to strike, but wonder only when and how… — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
I have campaigned for a higher minimum wage, and more employers should be paying a proper living wage. — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous. — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
![“[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable…” quote by Nancy Pelosi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92b/nancy-pelosi-1267_acting_martin-luther-king-jr-would-want-us-to-c_3177348.jpg)
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