[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and… — Doug Bandow 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
I think the right-wingers have to buddy up to the fact that either the minimum wage has to go up, and people… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. — Iris DeMent Copy Share Image
I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
“In the United States, the Supreme Court blocked several attempts to levy a federal income tax in the late nineteenth and early… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
“On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford more than doubled the minimum wage for many of his employees by introducing a $5 a… — Joseph Michelli Copy Share Image
The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take… — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
My mom worked at McDonald's, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the management program at… — Raul Labrador Copy Share Image
I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
“People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“The irony is that only by a particularly narrow definition does a Walmart job get you off welfare - as a matter… — Laura Briggs Copy Share Image