The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it… — John Raese Copy Share Image
I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich… — Yo Gotti 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
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker… — Marcy Kaptur 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
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
Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor… — Paul Kersey Copy Share Image
In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Progressive candidates don't hesitate when it comes to supporting universal health care, or the fight for $15 minimum wage, or the right… — Karine Jean-Pierre 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 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
Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with… — Bill Maher 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
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness. — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham Copy Share Image
One of the great constraints on economic growth and employment is that the tax and benefits system has grown up over generations… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The gains we made in the United States that have made our country great have, in large part, been made over the… — Byron Dorgan 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
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are… — John Sununu 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
When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
