I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
If you wanted to pursue some kind of artistic pursuit and you had another career, then you would definitely fall back on… — Steve Toltz 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
It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour.… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can… — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas.… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
“I love when people tell me that I cannot do something because I do not have the skills, knowledge, network. I haven't… — Temitope Owosela Copy Share Image
To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Freedom fighters, as Fink labeled the donors, needed to explain to American voters that their opposition to programs for the poor did… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“Minimum wage laws appear to give low-income workers something for nothing—and appearances are what count in politics. Realities can be left to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, Mr. Whiteleaf. I'm not going to let a monster eat me for minimum wage.” — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
