Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty… — Anonymous 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
It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average.… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I can be the most skilled person in the world, but if everyone else at my firm lacks skills, my employer is… — Timothy J. Bartik Copy Share Image
“Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“It is the principal paradox of this period that the only sphere of our economic system in which government intervention is urgently… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Wages? You want to be wage slaves? Answer me that! Of course not. What is it that makes wage slaves? Wages! I… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. — Lamar S. Smith Copy Share Image
To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Raising wages abroad would be good for the U.S. economy, as it would give our own industries a much-needed chance to compete.” — Elizabeth Cline Copy Share Image
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before. — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living… — Leonard Woodcock Copy Share Image
Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard! — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
