Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making… — Greg Mankiw Copy Share Image
Cleaning companies often pay their employees less than a living wage and offer no sick days or health insurance. My years of… — Stephanie Land 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
In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
I'm looking for a living wage and to continue my work. The frustration comes from when I can't do the things that… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“And I would not blame you if you still asked, Why bother to make contact with kindred spirits you never see and… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
When I talk about the city, I talk about a city that elevates people, which is the strength of New York. We… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I don't know if I ever mentioned back in 2002 we fought our way into a governor's debate in Massachusetts where, you… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I'm very careful with the money I have, I pay myself the living wage, and I try to save the rest, because… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Our party feels that we need to have fair compensation, living wage, good benefits, and decent treatment of workers, and that we… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care,… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Everyone can have health care. Everyone can earn a living wage. We can educate all our kids - well. But none of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Strax gave a snort of amusement. ‘It is surely a very simple choice. One option is for a quiet life with honest… — Justin Richards Copy Share Image
Most employers I speak to, they want to create jobs and give decent salaries. Some small and medium companies say to me… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
My politics are food-related - food banks, the living wage, zero hour contracts - and my food is political. — Jack Monroe 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
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The loony tuners are at it again. The cost of doing business in Oakland is already about the highest in the state.… — Randy Hamilton Copy Share Image
“America could do a lot with the money taxpayers spend to keep afloat people who are working full-time but whose employers don’t… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
Let the D-League be for players who have been in the NBA, who are on the fringe, and that want to fight… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
“People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“The essence of economic inequality is borne out in a simple fact: there are 400 billionaires in the United States and 45… — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Copy Share Image
This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
![“These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.” quote by Greg Mankiw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/272/greg-mankiw-50363_adults_these-teenagers-that-drop-out-of-school_1743125.jpg)
![“This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of…” quote by Harry S. Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/31d/harry-s-truman-898_add_this-minimum-wage-legislation-passed-by_2431733.jpg)
![“[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable…” quote by Nancy Pelosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/92b/nancy-pelosi-1267_acting_martin-luther-king-jr-would-want-us-to-c_3177348.jpg)
