Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents,… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
In passing the National Minimum Wage Act in 1998, the then-Labour Government did more than just establish the legal right to a… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minimum wage by 13 percent… — William Fung Copy Share Image
When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when… — Tammy Duckworth Copy Share Image
To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Seeing no better jobs on the horizon than flipping hamburgers with so much grease it would make Portugal, Italy, and Spain jealous,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
We'd certainly have paid leave already by now, we'd have equal pay, we'd have a living minimum wage - a lot of… — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued… — S. E. Cupp Copy Share Image
I worked on minimum wage; I didn't go to college out of school. I worked multiple jobs, and it's probably not something… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the… — Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Copy Share Image
“Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1965—about 24 percent lower. That job at Sears allowed… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a… — John Raese Copy Share Image
The Trump plan is a different plan. It's a you're fired plan. And there's two key elements to it. First, Donald Trump… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that… — Joe Miller Copy Share Image
There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what… — Fred DeLuca Copy Share Image
The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
I think the right-wingers have to buddy up to the fact that either the minimum wage has to go up, and people… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
I don't have any tech skills; I don't have any coding skills. If I'd been trying to get a job as a… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengthening families, increasing the… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
