But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure. — David D. Cole 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
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy. — Ralph Nader 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
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage. — Anonymous 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
[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking… — Paul Krugman 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
My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are… — Marco Rubio 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
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
“It would be difficult to say to whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner,… — Stacy Schiff 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
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
It is difficult to compare a footballer's wage to the wage of a bank manager or the manager of a large company.… — Nicklas Bendtner Copy Share Image
Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“Henry Ford gave that idea popular currency when he brought out the famous Model T car and announced in 1914 that he… — Hedrick Smith 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
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
“The eugenics roots of minimum wage laws. Excerpt from *Principles of Economics*(1911) by Frank Taussig: "We have not reached the stage where… — Frank Taussig Copy Share Image