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
If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Article XXVIII: Every newborn shall be sincerely welcomed and cared for until maturity. Article XXIX: Every adult who needs it shall be… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
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
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
[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 first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my… — Jimmy Carter 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
![“[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/i/92b/nancy-pelosi-1267_acting_martin-luther-king-jr-would-want-us-to-c_3177348.jpg)
![“I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change…” quote by Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/afe/jimmy-carter-479_boost_i-first-came-into-the-labor-force-in-194_1941779.jpg)
![“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/i/272/greg-mankiw-50363_adults_these-teenagers-that-drop-out-of-school_1743125.jpg)
