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• Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

  Matt Gonzalez

  School, Kids, Opportunity

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• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Doe, Machines

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

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Law, Liberty

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• The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

  Nick Hanauer

  Class, Middle, Lows

  "'Shit's Gonna Hit the Fan': Talking to a Billionaire About Class War". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. June 16, 2015.

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• 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

  Unemployment, Wages, Answers

  "Krugman Contra Krugman on the Minimum Wage?" by Benjamin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2013.

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

  John Boehner

  Suicide, Bills, Vote

  Interview with Molly K. Hooper and Bob Cusack, thehill.com. February 21, 2014.

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• A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

  Milton Friedman

  Reality, Skills, Law

  Interview, Playboy, Feb. 1973

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• Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.

  Gary Becker

  Law, Trying, Employment

  Gary Becker, Guity Becker, Guity Nashat (1998). “The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

  Paul Krugman

  Hiking, Adverse Effects, Political

  "Better Pay Now" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2013.

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• I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

  Milton Friedman

  Book, Law, Effects

  Milton Friedman (1972). “An economist's protest: columns in political economy”

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• The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Real, Law

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.55, Hoover Press

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• Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is.

  Nick Hanauer

  Simple, Administration, Fields

  Source: gawker.com

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• I think the right-wingers have to buddy up to the fact that either the minimum wage has to go up, and people get enough money to live, or you're always going to have people needing government assistance. You can't have it both ways.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Government, People

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• [A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

  Tom Harkin

  Opportunity, America, Impact

  "Raise the minimum wage" by Tom Harkin, www.politico.com. June 24, 2013.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Equal Pay, Pay

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I believe increasing minimum wage it`s not just the minimum wage, it`s a living wage.

  Alison Lundergan Grimes

  Believe, Living Wage, I Believe

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.

  Kevin Madden

  Moving, Opportunity, Skills

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• Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Inspiring, Giving, Economic

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• I grew up working for the minimum wage at Hardee's and knows first hand how important the minimum wage is. I support a state based minimum wage so every state can set their own minimum wage based on their cost of living.

  Joni Ernst

  Cost Of Living, Hands, Support

  Source: hotair.com

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• To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Years, America

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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

  Mitch McConnell

  People, Levels, Young

  "Study: Most sponsors of minimum wage hike bill don't pay interns". www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2014.

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• The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.

  Milton Friedman

  Teenager, Book, Social Unrest

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• This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Mean, Debate, Employers

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• I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.

  Marco Rubio

  Law, Class, People

  "Up" With Chris Hayes, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2013.

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• Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, College, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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