On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise. — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
“The Republicans were locked in: they would block any efforts to increase the minimum wage by even a few nickels. The” — Elizabeth Warren 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
By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply. — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Dream Bigger You think. Stop letting small minded people dictate your future when all they really want is for you to accomplish… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
From the Equal Pay Act to the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equality Act through to the minimum wage and Sure Start,… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage,… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour.… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People have to pay so much money to the banks that they don't have enough money to buy the goods and services… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
In working on any one problem, such as higher minimum wages, so many other issues come into play, such as some businesses… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
I was more than anything a radical. I was more sympathetic to Malcolm X than Martin Luther King because Malcolm X was… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Dr. Doris Parker: I have your ten week report. You know what it says "F, F, F… ". Do you know what… — Dr. Doris Parker 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 stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“WE HAVE ALREADY seen some of the harmful results of arbitrary governmental efforts to raise the price of favored commodities. The same… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“My mother wasn’t much into politics, but I’m sure she would have assumed that fifty years later, the minimum wage would be… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act. — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage. — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth. — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
