Average Quote by Sherrod Brown

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

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

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

Working families spend about 90 percent of their income on consumption - buying stuff. The rich spend less than 45 percent.

— Jan Schakowsky

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the…

— Bernie Sanders

[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 typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household…

— Thomas Perez

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

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

— Adam Cohen

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

If you had a basic income, it would mean that everybody would have a base on top of which their earned income would be…

— Guy Standing

The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has…

— John F. Kennedy