The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act. — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply. — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry, Mr. Whiteleaf. I'm not going to let a monster eat me for minimum wage.” — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?' — Tilman J. Fertitta Copy Share Image
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour [the minimum wage in 1996] are hard to resist.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families… — Barbara Mikulski 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“And Billy, if it'll ease your mind any, I want you to know you've got a standing offer to come work for… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“When Gene Crutchfield brought his troubled friend to Hopkins in 1938, Hopkins was twenty-four years old and in charge of LeKies Memorial,… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Am I loud and clear or am I breaking up? Am I still your charm or am I just bad luck? Are… — Rise Against Copy Share Image
“Helen of Troy Does Counter Dancing The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
In my view, it is not a question of Trump having won the election, it's a question of Democrats having lost the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth. — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances. — Adam Cohen 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
Getting proper change back at McDonalds: It's not rocket science, but it might as well be. — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
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