Assistants Quote by David Rolf

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for…

— Anonymous

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

“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

When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to…

— Fred DeLuca

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

— David Rolf

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

— Mitch McConnell

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out…

— Arthur Laffer

Minimum wage is supposed to be entry level.

— Nicole Malliotakis

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

— Thomas Perez

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

For food service industry and retail, I'm for the minimum wage being increased to at least $12. Not for manufacturing. Software and robotics are…

— Mark Cuban

Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people, then we're…

— John Schnatter