Minimum Wage Quotes - Page 6

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

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Increase, Should

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Rose, Political

  "Income Inequality’s Ripple Effect". www.politico.com. December 09, 2013.

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• The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

  Richard Trumka

  Erosion, America, Political

  "$7.25 an hour is not a living wage" by Richard Trumka and Christine Owens, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2013.

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• [Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth, and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable child care so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and in our society.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Dream, Kings, Children

  "Pelosi Remarks at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington Rally". pelosi.house.gov. August 26, 2013.

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• Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them. I ended up in my senior year with a 0.9 GPA, which I think you actually have to work pretty hard to get. In the exact same month they kicked me out of school, my girlfriend - still my wife today - told me she was pregnant. So, it was an interesting start to life: working 10 or 12 minimum-wage jobs; getting bored really quickly and quitting; having my in-laws - rightly - in full panic mode and thinking I had some kind of character flaw.

  L. Todd Rose

  Senior, Girlfriend, Jobs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take a urine test before you get your minimum wage. Even those places wouldn't hire me. So I was lucky when I got included in a group show at the Richard Heller gallery that kind of started my art career.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, School, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort.

  Jack Kemp

  Law, Effort, Degrees

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• People have to pay so much money to the banks that they don't have enough money to buy the goods and services they produce. So there's not much new investment, there's not new employment (except minimum-wage "service" jobs), markets are shrinking, and people are defaulting. So many companies can't pay their banks.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, People, Shrinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.

  Tim Kaine

  Men, Indiana, Increase

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The Trump plan is a different plan. It's a you're fired plan. And there's two key elements to it. First, Donald Trump said wages are too high. And both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage.

  Tim Kaine

  Thinking, Keys, Two

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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

  Support, Poverty, Raises

  Source: time.com

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Equal Pay, Guarantees, Economy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Rep. Paul Ryan: “He underplayed the enormity of the task before us, which is to confront a debt crisis”, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. February 13, 2013.

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• While she [Hillary Clinton] may have a - give lip service to progressive issues, she led the charge, and there she definitely did, in Haiti, to push down the minimum wage from 60 cents an hour down to 40 cents an hour. She, you know, has been the good friend of the big banks forever, and the insurance companies.

  Jill Stein

  Good Friend, Issues, Giving

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump's views are in line with theirs.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Views, Should Have

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Believe, Struggle

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• I know that everybody who supported Bernie Sanders supported him because they believe that college debt is too high. They believe that the minimum wage needs to be increased. They believe that we have to take on climate action.

  Keith Ellison

  Believe, College, Climate Action

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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.

  David Rolf

  Political, Support, Favors

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They're going to start having to, if I'm president, invest in this country - not in China, not in Mexico.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the minimum wage, being for universal health care for all Americans, and opposing trade agreements like NAFTA.

  Russ Feingold

  Thinking, Agreement, Would Be

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild for The Progressive Magazine, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. May 2002.

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• We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to raise it with these cost-of-living adjustments. Here's what's going to happen: They're going to have to lay people off.

  Chris Christie

  Cost Of Living, People, Political

  "Christie Says He’ll Reject Bill to Lift N.J. Minimum Wage" by Terrence Dopp, www.bloomberg.com. June 8, 2012.

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• The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.

  Barbara Boxer

  Moving, Differences, Political

  "Boxer pushes $10 minimum wage" by Breanna Edwards, www.politico.com. August 26, 2013.

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• 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.

  Harry S. Truman

  Law, Justice, Important

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• 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

  Years, Levels, Lasts

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