Minimum wage Quote by Karl Taro Greenfeld

“I also understood that for more than forty years, workers’ pay hadn’t kept pace with inflation. Productivity had gone up. Profits had gone up.…

— Elizabeth Warren

“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual…

— Michael Francis Moore

“The Republicans were locked in: they would block any efforts to increase the minimum wage by even a few nickels. The”

— Elizabeth Warren

“If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He gave a speech, saying we would work on Saturdays and Sundays and sleep under desks until it got done. Someone pushed back from…

— Ashlee Vance

“It is, perhaps, impossible to proportion exactly the price of labor to the profits it produces; and it will also be said, as an…

— Thomas Paine

“Lamar Alexander, the senator from Tennessee and the most senior Republican on the committee, was asking his last questions when a witness interrupted him…

— Elizabeth Warren

“Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The way I see it, no one in this country should work full-time and still live in poverty—period.”

— Elizabeth Warren

“America could do a lot with the money taxpayers spend to keep afloat people who are working full-time but whose employers don’t pay a…

— Elizabeth Warren

“The wage controls ended, but benefits remained. In most cases, benefit”

— Dennis W. Bakke

“once people grew used to free money, to laboring only when the mood struck them, they began to think there was something low about…

— Philipp Meyer