The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
People cry out, and deplore the unremunerative employment of woman. The true want is the other way. Women really trained, and capable… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don't want… — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden… — August Spies Copy Share Image
There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don't create an… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prosperity, provided (and… — John C. Calhoun 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
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
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
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
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
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner 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
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
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
For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
