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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the…

— Bernie Sanders

[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

“We’re taught to think of the minimum wage as a mechanism for helping people earn more. What it actually does is prevent people from…

— Don Watkins

The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions…

— David Rolf

The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive…

— Thomas Sowell

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household…

— Thomas Perez

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake…

— Thomas Sowell

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that…

— Jon Corzine

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then.…

— John Raese

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

— Mitch McConnell

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

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are…

— Joseph Stiglitz