Adjusted Quote by Charles E. Wilson

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

— David Ricardo

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

— Michael Hudson

If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.

— Joan Robinson

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased…

— David Korten

Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts.

— Hillary Clinton

“Some countries in earlier eras achieved rising per capita incomes but, when the source of the rise had been played out, were unable to…

— Edward A. Hudson

It's a mistake to think that any increase in wages is inflationary and there is substantial room for non-inflationary wage growth, particularly at the…

— Jared Bernstein

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

— Karl Marx

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

— Flip Wilson

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy…

— Thomas Perez

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

— James Cook

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

— David Korten