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.
Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.
If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
Unfortunately, Democrats don't want to wage a war on poverty or improve program integrity; they prefer talking points.
We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.
Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.
Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.
Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.
I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.
A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.
There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.
Intestine war no more our passions wage,
And giddy factions bear away their rage.
The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.
Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
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.
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.
Wage restraint was helping businesses out and now it's not. Have we tipped over the edge? Maybe not, but the trend in wages is moving higher.
The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.
I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.
In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.
If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.
One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.
By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.
But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.
In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs.
Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.
I'm in business to make money. However, I'm a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be a right.
Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.
I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.
The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
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