Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. — Robert J. Garagiola Copy Share Image
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage. — Greg Gianforte Copy Share Image
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cutting tax credits for education and training will result in more Americans working at minimum-wage jobs while U.S. companies go begging for… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
You cannot be against a raise in the minimum wage and for cutting government assistance and still say that you are worried… — Ron Crumpton Copy Share Image
I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people,… — John Schnatter 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
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
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
[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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“WE HAVE ALREADY seen some of the harmful results of arbitrary governmental efforts to raise the price of favored commodities. The same… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt 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
“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
“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
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas.… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
I was raised by a single mother who raised children on minimum wage. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor. — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage. — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare. — Guy Standing 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 last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/barack-obama-17_bumps_a-family-with-two-kids-that-earns-the-mi_2983577.jpg)
