Top 1200 Minimum Wage Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it as I was on minimum wage.

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

A liberal is a person who sees a fourteen-year-old girl performing sex acts onstage and wonders if she's being paid minimum wage.

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.

Barack Obama and Kay Hagan think that the minimum wage needs to be the same in the mountains of North Carolina and in the city of Boston - it makes no sense to me.

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.

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

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

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.

Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs.

On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I think, a very strong voice.

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

You cannot be against a raise in the minimum wage and for cutting government assistance and still say that you are worried about the people living in poverty.

To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's time to raise the minimum wage.

Once the country was settled and built, the bosses changed the order from a stack of educated workers to a barrel of minimum wage lottery dreamers.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Before the government decides to raise the minimum wage, it must consider the effects of the tax and benefits merry-go-round that affects the low-paid.

When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.

Despite broad public support, raising the minimum wage is always difficult owing to the disproportionate influence that wealthy firms and donors have in Congress.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.

In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also raise the minimum wage - a big deal for the nearly two-thirds of minimum-wageworkers who are women. And we'll give women the tools they need to fight for equal pay. This isn't just a "women's issue"? - it's an issue every American should care about, no matter their gender.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.