Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage. — Alex Padilla 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
From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status. — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
“I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year;” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Saying I want to pay women a fair wage is doing something and saying young black people deserve not to be called… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The impact of a minimum wage depends on how high it is to average wages. If you have too high a minimum… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to,… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
My dad always said to me that he hoped there would be a wage, so that I could be a footballer as… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal,… — Lucy Powell 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
A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question… — John Bates Clark 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
But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure. — David D. Cole Copy Share Image
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Impressing others is an exhausting and fruitless battle. Don't go broke trying to look rich. Act your wage. — Ronald Oliver Copy Share Image
No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies! — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth. — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
We need to do everything possible in order to realize wage increases. — Fumio Kishida 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
