Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. — Sherwood Boehlert 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
Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage. — Alison Lundergan Grimes 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
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
“MILWAUKEE- President Barack Obama went to Milwaukee on Monday to talk up an improving economy and push Congress to boost the minimum… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Before the government decides to raise the minimum wage, it must consider the effects of the tax and benefits merry-go-round that affects… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies… — Fred DeLuca Copy Share Image
To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Progressive candidates don't hesitate when it comes to supporting universal health care, or the fight for $15 minimum wage, or the right… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I want us to invest in you. I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The fact is, yes, statistically, African Americans and Latinos are getting hit harder, but it's something that we can have real solidarity… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
“It freaks me out they're sort of involved, and yet, one day, Viv's stepmom is going to order Henley to kill Viv."… — Sarah Cross 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
“Freedom fighters, as Fink labeled the donors, needed to explain to American voters that their opposition to programs for the poor did… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage… — Maria Echaveste Copy Share Image
“Does affirmative action place minority students in colleges where they're likely to fail while depriving other applicants of the chance to attend… — William Voegeli Copy Share Image
“Lamar Alexander, the senator from Tennessee and the most senior Republican on the committee, was asking his last questions when a witness… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford more than doubled the minimum wage for many of his employees by introducing a $5 a… — Joseph Michelli Copy Share Image
“The irony is that only by a particularly narrow definition does a Walmart job get you off welfare - as a matter… — Laura Briggs Copy Share Image
The Fed cannot reduce inequality on its own; far from it. This requires a concerted effort by the government, broadly speaking, to… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
“The split has widened because the right has moved right, not because the left has moved left. Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Liberals including James Tobin, Paul Samuelson, and John Kenneth Galbraith and conservatives like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek have all advocated income… — Erik Brynjolfsson 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
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
I was raised by a single mother who raised children on minimum wage. — Ritchie Torres 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
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. — Robert J. Garagiola Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown 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
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists. — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
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