Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage. — Anthony Bourdain 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
The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens. — Michael Dirda 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
“What do elves consider a living wage?" Keith whispered to Gunther. Gunther just shrugged. "Their own pair of pants?” — Nicole Kimberling Copy Share Image
Be prepared for the creation of an intrusive bureaucracy to police the ordinance by examining the books and payroll ledgers of businesses... — Randy Hamilton Copy Share Image
An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist. — Fiorello H. La Guardia 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid… — Philip Kotler 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
“The next time you drive into a Walmart parking lot, pause for a second to note that this Walmart—like the more than… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Andy Scamp's simple list of the ways people feel valuable. 1. Just believing it. Sometimes this is religious, sometimes it is not.… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“These new taxes and the nationalization of finance meant the U.S. government would soon be dealing with a healthy budget surplus. Universal… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“We created order out of chaos. We made beauty and shaped history. We kept the magic of the realms safe in our… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It was a Conservative government that in 2016 introduced the national living wage, giving Britain's lowest-paid workers the biggest pay rise in 20 years. — Rishi Sunak Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
I would use the power of procurement, I would say if you want to do business with the mayor of London, you… — Sadiq Khan 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
Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage. — Amy McGrath Copy Share Image
