The quickest way to kill jobs is to have this ordinance pass. It is dumb and dangerous. — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage. — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
I have campaigned for a higher minimum wage, and more employers should be paying a proper living wage. — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
The 'Living-Wage Campaign' at Harvard is like a Boston winter: you know it's going to strike, but wonder only when and how… — Vivek Ramaswamy 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
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
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 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
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all… — Ian Mckellen 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
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
I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
... 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
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
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
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
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
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
I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage. — Alison Lundergan Grimes 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
I'm in business to make money. However, I'm a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be… — Wayne Messam 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
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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
By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Like how on earth can you make 180 grand as a senator with luxe health care and sit there and be like… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
Catholics want what other Americans want: access to health care and jobs that pay a living wage. They want to send their… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I… — Marcia Wallace Copy Share Image
And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Leadership means making sure that people are adequately skilled, making sure people are earning a living wage, making sure people have access… — Deray McKesson Copy Share Image
The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
If the proposed ordinance is adopted it will hurt small women- and minority-owned businesses the most, the majority of which are already… — Randy Hamilton 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
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