Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive. — Jeanne Shaheen Copy Share Image
Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom. — Paul Achleitner Copy Share Image
I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage,… — Sam Walton Copy Share Image
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Low-wage workers are also consumers. It's just common sense: when these workers have more take-home pay it leads to spending that trickles… — Mark Price Copy Share Image
By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Low-wage individuals barely get anything. I think we have to reward work, and I do think that we need to bump up… — Mike Coffman Copy Share Image
I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There were moments when we could not afford to have three meals a day. My mother would lurch from one low-wage job… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“Truth is, among low-wage earners busting their tails to make the rent, one’s feelings are seldom discussed or acknowledged. Emotional wellness is… — Diane Guerrero Copy Share Image
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“How does a hardworking sixty-four-year-old-woman end up without a house or a permanent place to stay, relying on unpredictable low-wage work to… — Jessica Bruder Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“...Maybe it's low-wage work in general that has the effect of making feel like a pariah. When I watch TV over my… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Parents like Jennifer, Susan, and Rae express desires that are quite modest. Full-time hours come first. That is a prize that can… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“Although the 1996 welfare reform pushed millions of low-income single moms into the workforce, it did nothing to improve the conditions of… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“Yet laying the blame on a lack of personal responsibility obscures the fact that there are powerful and ever-changing structural forces at… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
Too many American families go bankrupt from healthcare expenses, and low wage workers have to hold two or three jobs just to… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
