Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do… — Richard Riordan Copy Share Image
People will say 'how can you have a plane when your workers are on minimum wage?' I said 'but I don't set… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
I see a minimum living wage as a long-term solution, but I'm not sure that's my favorite. I think society benefits if… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
At a time when families are incredibly squeezed, it's essential that we provide a living wage for people who work hard and… — Katie McGinty Copy Share Image
Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor… — Paul Kersey Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
If people envisage me in the Senate they might think of me as someone who would emulate Paul Wellstone, fighting for the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I don't know if I ever mentioned back in 2002 we fought our way into a governor's debate in Massachusetts where, you… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making… — Greg Mankiw Copy Share Image
“People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I… — Marcia Wallace Copy Share Image
Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Like how on earth can you make 180 grand as a senator with luxe health care and sit there and be like… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Everyone can have health care. Everyone can earn a living wage. We can educate all our kids - well. But none of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Our party feels that we need to have fair compensation, living wage, good benefits, and decent treatment of workers, and that we… — Dick Durbin 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 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
I'm very careful with the money I have, I pay myself the living wage, and I try to save the rest, because… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
In a fair society, the solution to unemployment is not to force people into workfare programmes which do little more than supply… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Cleaning companies often pay their employees less than a living wage and offer no sick days or health insurance. My years of… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“And I would not blame you if you still asked, Why bother to make contact with kindred spirits you never see and… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
![“This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of…” quote by Harry S. Truman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/31d/harry-s-truman-898_add_this-minimum-wage-legislation-passed-by_2431733.jpg)
![“These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.” quote by Greg Mankiw](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/272/greg-mankiw-50363_adults_these-teenagers-that-drop-out-of-school_1743125.jpg)
