“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Since 1978 for the bottom half of the wealth distribution male median wages have actually gone down. And I think that's a… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Anarchism is opposed to states, armies, slavery, the wages system, the landlord system, prisons, monopoly capitalism, oligopoly capitalism, state capitalism, bureaucracy, meritocracy,… — Donald Rooum Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if… — Barack Obama 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
You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and… — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another.… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
As players, we have the best job in the world and if the manager said, 'You haven't worked hard enough, you will… — Kolo Toure Copy Share Image
I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a city whose basic industry is the service industry. That's why it makes its money. That's - it brings… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits,… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prosperity, provided (and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want… — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
