American workers Quote by Christina Romer

From our perspective, as an antitrust enforcer, we're supposed to protect competition in all markets. That includes labor markets.

— Lina Khan

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

— Andy Stern

We need to make sure that hardworking Americans have the workplace protections they need to get ahead in the 21st-century economy.

— Seth Moulton

“When unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of other workers…

— Milton Friedman

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all…

— James P. Hoffa

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

— Thomas Sowell

I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.

— Angus Deaton

Laws protecting this right - whatever the level of the minimum wage, and whatever the Government chooses to call it - are only as…

— Emily Thornberry

By keeping labor supply down, immigration policy tends to keep wages high. Let us underline this basic principle: Limitation of the supply of any…

— Paul Samuelson

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people…

— Alan Greenspan

We need a new model of social protection. Let us accept that jobs are not the magic solution - and that in a globalised…

— Guy Standing

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure…

— Pramila Jayapal