Country Quote by Jalen Rose

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country

— Franklin D Roosevelt

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

— Henry Hazlitt

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people…

— Donna Shalala

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

— Lily Tomlin

If you do not ensure that people are being paid a living wage, then you are going to have people who rely on government…

— Ron Crumpton

It's not that other countries steal jobs from you guys. It's your strategy. Distribute the money and things in a proper way.

— Jack Ma

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than…

— Timothy Keller

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.

— Martha Roby

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

— Milton Friedman

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

— Ed Miliband

Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage.

— Alex Padilla

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

— Henry Rollins