Teachers say try your hardest to get a good job. When most of them have minimum wage drop out jobs. — The Awesome Quoter Truth Only Copy Share Image
I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. — Tom DeLay 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
Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
I worked on minimum wage; I didn't go to college out of school. I worked multiple jobs, and it's probably not something… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents,… — Stephanie Cutter 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
“Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1965—about 24 percent lower. That job at Sears allowed… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up from… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was always surrounded by musicians. After I got into that trouble, got locked up and when I got out… — Akon Copy Share Image
The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from… — Linda McMahon 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
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The inexorable rise of inequality can be countered at the top by higher taxes on the highest earners who have captured so… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
When you work extra, you should be paid extra. That's what the Fair Labor Standards Act said. And I've met so many… — Tom Perez 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
Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them.… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel 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
Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if… — Margaret Atwood 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 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/img-quotes/afe/jimmy-carter-479_boost_i-first-came-into-the-labor-force-in-194_1941779.jpg)
