Lows Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does…

— Murray Rothbard

Low pay generally means harder work under worse conditions.

— Paul Goodman

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

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

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Barack Obama

Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.

— Milton Friedman

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who…

— Milton Friedman

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

— Sue Grafton

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

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

Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining the skills…

— Stephen Moore