Benefits Quote by Russ Carnahan

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

— Russ Carnahan

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity…

— Paul Krugman

I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in…

— Ritchie Torres

There's this notion out there - and it's a categorically false notion - that the only business model in the service industry is the…

— Tom Perez

Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages,…

— Henry Hazlitt

I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your…

— Chris Rock

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

— Robert J. Garagiola

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

— Charles B. Rangel

“Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1965—about 24 percent lower. That job at Sears allowed my mother…

— Elizabeth Warren

Barack Obama and Kay Hagan think that the minimum wage needs to be the same in the mountains of North Carolina and in the…

— Thom Tillis

“The eugenics roots of minimum wage laws. Excerpt from *Principles of Economics*(1911) by Frank Taussig: "We have not reached the stage where we can…

— Frank Taussig

“My mother wasn’t much into politics, but I’m sure she would have assumed that fifty years later, the minimum wage would be a lot…

— Elizabeth Warren