The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants. — Leonard Woodcock 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
An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist. — Fiorello H. La Guardia Copy Share Image
“He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. — Nancy Pelosi 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
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
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on… — Charles Duhigg 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
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
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just… — Wayne Static Copy Share Image
Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When… — Amy B. Lyman Copy Share Image
This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
“That’s what happened at Ford, for example. In 1914, Henry Ford famously raised his starting wage to $5 a day (nearly $120… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up from… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Ikea plans to adopt a wage structure that it says will raise the average hourly minimum wage at its 38 stores in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I pay a living wage, I believe in healthcare, I declare all my income, and I don't cut corners. — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
I needed to pay for my horses in Warwickshire, and I couldn't do that off a waitress' wage. — Edie Campbell Copy Share Image
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
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
I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage. — Bruce Rauner Copy Share Image
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda. — Thomas Perez 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
“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
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
What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant. — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
We need to do everything possible in order to realize wage increases. — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth. — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies! — Jennifer Armintrout Copy Share Image
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
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