When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers. — Jason Kander 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
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
Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
I'd be 100 percent supportive of a minimum wage - kind of industry specific, maybe regionally specific - for guest workers, so… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
Any success I have had is thanks to Labour governments that provided the council house, minimum wage, tax credits and Sure Start… — Angela Rayner 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
Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians… — Itay Talgam 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
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation. — Russ Carnahan 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
It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of… — Robert Gibbs Copy Share Image
[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
People will say 'how can you have a plane when your workers are on minimum wage?' I said 'but I don't set… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal,… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
“It matters whether the government blows tens of billions of dollars on tax loopholes for billionaires or whether that same money is… — Elizabeth Warren 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
“The eugenics roots of minimum wage laws. Excerpt from *Principles of Economics*(1911) by Frank Taussig: "We have not reached the stage where… — Frank Taussig Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Here is what needs to be understood in our bones: the spell of neoliberalism has been broken, crushed under the weight of… — Naomi Klein 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
“Illegal aliens are often preferred, but poor recent immigrants who do not speak English are also desirable employees. By the standards of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
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