It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest. — Charlie Sykes 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
I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program. — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been out of work myself and hated it. Any work, even on a minimum wage, is better than none. — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
Laws protecting this right - whatever the level of the minimum wage, and whatever the Government chooses to call it - are… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is open… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
The impact of a minimum wage depends on how high it is to average wages. If you have too high a minimum… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Ikea plans to adopt a wage structure that it says will raise the average hourly minimum wage at its 38 stores in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the… — Pramila Jayapal 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
I worked at the local YMCA for a little while. I was in the gym cleaning up and stuff. I think that… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions… — Steve Hanke 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
In working on any one problem, such as higher minimum wages, so many other issues come into play, such as some businesses… — Philip Kotler 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
In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“My mother wasn’t much into politics, but I’m sure she would have assumed that fifty years later, the minimum wage would be… — Elizabeth Warren 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
“Donna to the policewoman: Don't you touch this car! The Doctor watching: She's not changed. Wilfred: Oh. There he is. Shawn Temple.… — Russell T Davies 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
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren 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
Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Getting proper change back at McDonalds: It's not rocket science, but it might as well be. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary. — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
I have campaigned for a higher minimum wage, and more employers should be paying a proper living wage. — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
