The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
What we have is a pay structure that, on basic wages, is higher than market rate, as a general statement. When you… — Steven Burd Copy Share Image
The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want… — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut… — Sumner Slichter Copy Share Image
In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid… — Orosius Copy Share Image
The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the… — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As… — Henry George Copy Share Image
A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude,… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer,… — Polly Adler Copy Share Image
God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
Over the years, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs. These trade agreements have forced wages down in America so the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition,… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be - if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism benefited the masses in a double way - both by greatly increasing the wages of the masses of workers and… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam.… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Economies are risky. Some industries rise, and others implode, like housing. Some places get richer, and others drop, like Atlantic City. Some… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's laid out a plan to end illegal immigration once and for all in America. We've been talking it to death… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes… — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Since 1978 for the bottom half of the wealth distribution male median wages have actually gone down. And I think that's a… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will… — A. Philip Randolph 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
You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute… — Anna Lappe Copy Share Image
