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
I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it… — John Raese Copy Share Image
Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor… — Paul Kersey Copy Share Image
The problem with one single minimum wage is that you don't allow for younger people, who are less skilled and maybe more… — Zanny Minton Beddoes 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
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
The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Minimum wage increases. The Nobel Prize economist Milton Friedman has observed that the minimum wage is "one of the most ... anti-black… — David Horowitz 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
I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get money for… — Richard Linklater 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
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
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
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
I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
The worst job I ever had was working in the call center of an electric company. I sat in a tiny cubicle… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a… — 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
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
The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and… — Aruna Roy Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong.… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that we should be doing more to get people off of minimum wage. I think that's the real path to… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are… — Colleen Hanabusa Copy Share Image
On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I… — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
The impact of a minimum wage depends on how high it is to average wages. If you have too high a minimum… — Zanny Minton Beddoes Copy Share Image
The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is open… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public… — Ron Crumpton Copy Share Image
By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to,… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Laws protecting this right - whatever the level of the minimum wage, and whatever the Government chooses to call it - are… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
