Bills Quote by Thomas Perez

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

— Mitch McConnell

Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would…

— Fabrizio Moreira

“We’re taught to think of the minimum wage as a mechanism for helping people earn more. What it actually does is prevent people from…

— Don Watkins

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

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

— Sue Grafton

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

When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to…

— Fred DeLuca

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

Minimum wage is supposed to be entry level.

— Nicole Malliotakis

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

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

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out…

— Arthur Laffer