“Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
Federal laws, including those that made so many people immigrate without documents, gutted the enforcement power of the Department of Labor and… — Rinku Sen 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
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
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get money for… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
While she [Hillary Clinton] may have a - give lip service to progressive issues, she led the charge, and there she definitely… — Jill Stein 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
It is no small thing for an American to be able to go into a fast-food restaurant and to buy a double… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table.… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for… — Hillary Clinton 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
“Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black… — David Horowitz 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
I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go… — Katrina vanden Heuvel 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
“That left Jeb to work for whatever the bosses offered under the National Right to Work Act--the minimum wage having been abolished--enough… — Karl Taro Greenfeld Copy Share Image
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives… — Bernie Sanders 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
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image