Quotes and Sayings About Minimum Wage
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Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.
-- A. Philip Randolph -
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
-- Benjamin Jealous -
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.
-- Bill Pascrell -
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.
-- Christina Romer -
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.
-- Christina Romer -
The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
-- Christine Pelosi -
Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
-- Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham -
I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.
-- Eva Longoria -
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
-- Harry S. Truman -
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.
-- Iris DeMent -
The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie -- but only if she is paid the minimum wage.
-- Irving Kristol -
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?
-- Itay Talgam -
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
-- J. D. Hayworth -
The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
-- Jackson Browne -
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
-- Jim Clyburn -
I’ll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill,
-- John Boehner -
When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a prep course. I don't remember what it paid, but it was easily double or triple the minimum wage.
-- John Katzman -
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 -
It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
-- Jon Corzine -
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
-- Marcy Kaptur -
I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely tolerable working conditions because there are sufficient undocumented workers willing to accept those terms. If we care about low-income workers in this country, we need to create pressure to improve their economic condition by reducing the supply of unauthorized workers.
-- Maria Echaveste -
Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
-- Mark Dayton -
The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
-- Mitch McConnell -
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.
-- Murray Rothbard -
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.
-- Neal Boortz -
But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
-- Nick Hanauer -
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
-- Norm Coleman -
So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.
-- Paul Krugman -
Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
-- Peter Schiff
