Top 1200 Minimum Wage Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

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

What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.

Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

We should raise the national minimum wage.

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.

This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since wages were paid in Spanish doubloons (which coincidentally are now mostly found underwater). Kennedy refuses to countenance any risky schemes like trying to grow the economy so people making minimum wage get raises because they've been promoted. Kennedy's going down and he's taking the party with him! (Recognize the pattern?)

I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there.

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 official poverty line.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

The real minimum wage is zero.

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

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

We've led the way in the $15 minimum wage.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

If people envisage me in the Senate they might think of me as someone who would emulate Paul Wellstone, fighting for the issues he fought for. He was a good friend of mine. We'll be trying to do a couple of things. One is fighting for national health care. Another is fighting to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, and changing our trade policies.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive.

A general flat minimum-wage law for all industry is permissible, but I do not think that it is a particularly wise method of achieving the end. I know much better methods of providing a minimum for everybody. But once you turn from laying down a general minimum for all industry to decreeing particular and different minimum for different industries, then, of course, you make the price mechanism inoperative, because it is no longer the price mechanism which will guide people between industries and trades.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

In my view, we need a massive federal jobs program which puts millions of our people back to work. We must end our disastrous trade policies. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. And we have to fight for pay equity for women.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.

It seems to me both moral and practical that in the richest in nation in the world that someone working full time shouldn't live in poverty. And studies over the last 20 years in states where we have seen these minimum wage increases show there's no discernible impact on employment growth. In fact, what it does is line low-wage workers' pockets with higher wages.

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.

I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.

To the second end, we hold that minimum wage commissions should be established in the Nation and in each State to inquire into wages paid in various industries and to determine the standard which the public ought to sanction as a minimum; and we believe that, as a present installment of what we hope for in the future, there should be at once established in the Nation and its several States minimum standards for the wages of women, taking the present Massachusetts law as a basis from which to start and on which to improve.

Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs.