I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs. — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant. — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more. — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda. — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology… — Jan C. Ting 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
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 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
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
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
There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
High mandated minimum wages will throw people out of work and onto the welfare rolls in cases where unemployment benefits exist. When… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
My dad always said to me that he hoped there would be a wage, so that I could be a footballer as… — Leah Williamson 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
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
You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. — Patrick deWitt 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
If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. — Marco Rubio 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
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels. — Bruce Rauner 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
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 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
Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending… — Kirsten Gillibrand 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
The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
