To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be… — Stephen S. Roach Copy Share Image
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses. — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Rising prices or wages do not cause inflation; they only report it. They represent an essential form of economic speech, sincemoney isjust… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. — Jared Bernstein Copy Share Image
The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages… — Laurent Fabius Copy Share Image
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods,… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If a market exists for low-paid work, then we should think about how we can make this type of work more attractive… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Black Friday, in reality, is a symptom of the plight that 30 years of Reaganomics has brought to working people in America.… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature. — Henry Edward Manning Copy Share Image
If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that. — Thomas Muller Copy Share Image
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and… — David Korten Copy Share Image
When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000… — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions. — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage,… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers. — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
