Growth Quote by Katrina vanden Heuvel

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

— Barack Obama

[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

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value…

— Anonymous

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

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

— Jon Corzine

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.

— Barack Obama

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to…

— Thomas Perez

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

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

“According to a recent poll [...] 94% of Americans agree that "people who work fulltime should be able to earn enough to keep their…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

No one who works a full-time job should live in poverty. It's that simple. We must stand on the side of hard-working Americans.

— Alex Padilla

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