“I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs. — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage. — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I pay a living wage, I believe in healthcare, I declare all my income, and I don't cut corners. — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minimum wage by 13 percent… — William Fung Copy Share Image
In passing the National Minimum Wage Act in 1998, the then-Labour Government did more than just establish the legal right to a… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put… — Wheeler McMillen Copy Share Image
My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've probably had… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents,… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
“It would be difficult to say to whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner,… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford gave that idea popular currency when he brought out the famous Model T car and announced in 1914 that he… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner… — Marian Keyes 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
“Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black… — David Horowitz 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
Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The problem with one single minimum wage is that you don't allow for younger people, who are less skilled and maybe more… — Zanny Minton Beddoes 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
“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
I feel strongly about opening up the conversation around the wage gap. It makes a difference how much you get paid, especially… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong.… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Feeling the pressure to find a job or make the wage we earn go as far as we need it to? That's… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Before the government decides to raise the minimum wage, it must consider the effects of the tax and benefits merry-go-round that affects… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies… — Fred DeLuca Copy Share Image
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image