Wage Quotes

457 Wage quotes by 337 unique authors

[E]conomic liberty and creative entrepreneurship are the basis of any solution to today's social and economic difficulties. Blaming business, setting wages, and attempting to run… — Doug Bandow
While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage… — John F. Kennedy
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has… — Marcia Wallace
House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do… — Bill Pascrell
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination. — Olympia Snowe
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown
An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive… — Martin Feldstein
But what makes wage slaves? Wages! — Groucho Marx
Individual price and wage changes will not be prevented. In the main, price changes will simply be concealed by taking the form of changes in… — Milton Friedman
The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people. — Mitch McConnell
When adults wage war, children perish. — Elie Wiesel
But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions… — August Spies
Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated… — Amy B. Lyman
I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our… — Bernie Sanders
The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I… — Bill Richardson
I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my… — Dennis Kucinich
These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for… — Greg Mankiw
By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem… — Lawrence Reed
Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce… — Kevin Madden
I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of… — Robert Gibbs
[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage… — Paul Krugman
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of… — Richard Trumka
[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by… — Nancy Pelosi
[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy… — Tom Harkin
Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale.… — Joe Biden

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