Minimum wage Quote by Elizabeth Warren

“My mother wasn’t much into politics, but I’m sure she would have assumed that fifty years later, the minimum wage would be a lot…

— Elizabeth Warren

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

— John Freeman

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

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

— Bill Dedman

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three…

— Elizabeth Warren

I was raised by a single mother who raised children on minimum wage.

— Ritchie Torres

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

— Winnie Byanyima

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

[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…

— Tom Harkin

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 was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

— J. D. Hayworth

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

— Russ Carnahan