Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a… — Nick Hanauer 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 lot of… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Fast food workers are all the governor has power to enact. Your state legislature is held hostage by the same nitwits that hold hostage… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
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