Currents Quote by Jon Corzine

[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time…

— Barack Obama

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

— Adam Cohen

It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

I believe that we should be doing more to get people off of minimum wage. I think that's the real path to being able…

— Nicole Malliotakis

Raising the federal minimum wage won't just put more money in the pocket of low-income families - it also means they spend more money…

— Hillary Clinton

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are…

— Joseph Stiglitz

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

— Barack Obama

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

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

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a…

— Anonymous

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many…

— Christina Romer

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off…

— Matthew Desmond