Families Quote by Adam Cohen

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

— Jon Corzine

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time…

— Barack Obama

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three…

— Elizabeth Warren

You've got to support working families. We should be looking to support those who strive the hardest, and increase the national living wage, to…

— Matt Hancock

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

— John Hickenlooper

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

— Barack Obama

Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.

— Ron Crumpton

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many…

— Christina Romer

I believe that we should be doing more to get people off of minimum wage. I think that's the real path to being able…

— Nicole Malliotakis

It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

— Nicholas Johnson

Poverty makes you work really hard.

— Maye Musk