Wage Quotes · Page 4

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

— Andrew Cuomo

Let's invest in our local schools to make sure that teachers have a livable wage.

— Miguel Cardona

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

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

— Elizabeth Warren

We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.

— Leonard Woodcock

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

— Bruce Rauner

I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.

— Bruce Rauner

Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public…

— Ron Crumpton

By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who…

— William J. Clinton

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are…

— Colleen Hanabusa

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts…

— Thomas Perez

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from…

— Linda McMahon

“Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1965—about 24 percent lower. That job at Sears allowed…

— Elizabeth Warren

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a…

— John Raese

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work…

— Douglas Reed

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never…

— Mike Rowe

Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11…

— Holly Sklar

Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining…

— Stephen Moore

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour.…

— Jon Corzine

There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry…

— Tom Perez

“The eugenics roots of minimum wage laws. Excerpt from *Principles of Economics*(1911) by Frank Taussig: "We have not reached the stage where…

— Frank Taussig

It is difficult to compare a footballer's wage to the wage of a bank manager or the manager of a large company.…

— Nicklas Bendtner

Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't…

— David D. Burns

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

— Sherrod Brown

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

— Marco Rubio

“He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

— Nancy Pelosi

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

— Patrick deWitt

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

— Sherrod Brown

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

— Greg Gianforte

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

— Kathy Szeliga

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

— Sherrod Brown

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

— Robert J. Garagiola

I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.

— Alice Waters

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

— Bruce Rauner

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

— Thomas Perez

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

— Mitt Romney

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

— Hillary Clinton

What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.

— Thom Tillis