While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and… — Dalton McGuinty Copy Share Image
I want people to make a lot more than $9 - $9 is not enough. The problem is you can't do that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum… — Bruce Rauner 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
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
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
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
“We’re taught to think of the minimum wage as a mechanism for helping people earn more. What it actually does is prevent… — Don Watkins 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
Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
I don't see the minimum wage as a fight between capital and labor, between persistent small businesses and diligent employees. I think… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of… — Henry Hazlitt 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
“More than 70 percent of the American people believe that students should have a chance at a debt-free education. • Nearly three-quarters of… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
You [Jill Stein] also believe in a full employment policy that was the majority Democratic Party policy in 1946. They actually passed… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“Growing hops is one of the most labour-intensive parts of the brewing process, and all the workers, at every step of the… — Ian Marchant Copy Share Image
[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like… — John Podesta 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
“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
Now, why would my supporters be supporting somebody who doesn't want to raise the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Men aren't allowed to have self-esteem, because we're already supposed to have all the power… But most men earn less than they… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Unlike side issues like unemployment, unions, and minimum-wage laws, the subject of work itself is almost entirely absent from libertarian literature. Most… — Bob Black 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
The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I have been dealing with the minimum wage issue for the last 28 years that I have been in elective office. And… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has shown no interest in working toward increasing the minimum wage, no interest in doing anything but immigrant baiting, no… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows… — James P. Hoffa 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
The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family… — Richard Ojeda Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect… — Kevin Flynn Copy Share Image
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