“During the war, the holders of power in all countries found it necessary to bribe the populations into cooperation by unusual concessions.… — Bertrand Russell 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
“In a book published at the time, a lace manufacturer admitted that he expected his workers to turn a few tricks on… — Debbie Stoller Copy Share Image
If you do not ensure that people are being paid a living wage, then you are going to have people who rely… — Ron Crumpton Copy Share Image
Yes, there is some evidence that migration can slightly depress wages at the bottom end of the labour market, but that's an… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our… — Nina Turner 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
If Apple is enslaving Chinese to make its iPhones, you don't need to eat the i-Phone, you need to make sure that… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I believe employers should be aware that employees who earn under $10 an hour cannot lead an independent life. But I do… — Richard Riordan 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
“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
“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.… — Joseph Casper Husslein Copy Share Image
In a fair society, the solution to unemployment is not to force people into workfare programmes which do little more than supply… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against… — Anna Garlin Spencer 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
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
“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
I think that we see some cities that have developed living wage ordinances. I think that we see some efforts to actually… — Martha Minow 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 Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from… — Mike Rosen Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
... leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making… — Danny Glover 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
