Wages Quotes - Page 17

• If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.

  Adam Hochschild

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Media, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think actually under scrutiny, Hillary's [Clinton] promotion of equal wages at poverty level and of healthcare for children but not for their families, of childcare when there are no jobs, it just doesn't cut it. I think women need a real agenda of justice because women are care-givers, because women are instruments of justice for our families and for our communities.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• And wages - we'll see the end of this decline we're having. The median income in America is down 10% in just the last four years. That's got to stop. We've got to start seeing rising wages and job growth.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Years, America

  "Romney's Blueprint: America Under Super-Mitt". TIME interview, www.goodreads.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Truck, Hardworking

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.

  Charles R. Morris

  Country, Government, Challenges

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I am backing Remain for a very simple reason: it is the best way of protecting jobs, wages and rights for working people.

  Sadiq Khan

  Jobs, Simple, Rights

  "Vote Remain as staying in the EU is the best way to protect jobs and working people". www.mirror.co.uk. June 14, 2016.

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• The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.

  David Rolf

  Poverty, Fast Food, Notorious

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I concluded that the trade agreements weren't working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs of Americans, and that both needed to change, and Donald Trump was out there. So I went to his rally.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Agreement, Trump

  "Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Sen. Jeff Sessions". www.politico.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I want to imagine a country where people's wages reflect their hard work, where we have healthcare for everyone, and where every child gets to live up to his or her potential.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Children, Hard Work

  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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• Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck.

  John Boehner

  Struggle, Train Wrecks, Growth

  "Immigration Battle". Film by Shari Robertson, Michael Camerini, www.pbs.org. 2015.

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• When I started at 9, I was working with plaster. I worked with a florist. It was a little illegal for kids to work. They would give you tips because they couldn't really give you wages.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Kids, Giving, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that real and positive immigration reform is possible, as long as we focus on the following goals: to improve jobs and wages for Americans, to strengthen our nation's security, and to restore respect for our laws.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Real, Believe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Do we stand up over a gold plated trophy? Or do we stand up and say we need equal wages and equal treatment?The Oscars have not been any different for what...89 years? But why do we keep wanting to get thrown a bone? Why do we want to keep saying 'Can we please come to your party?

  Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

  Party, Equal Treatment, Years

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• I think we need equal wages which are living wages.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Needs, Equal

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• The wages of sin is debugging.

  Ron Jeffries

  Debugging, Sin

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• I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.

  Jill Stein

  Men, Thinking, President

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Tired

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages. Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Law, Immigration

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We'll have a national dispute - debate about it, and the goal should be to bring in - to help respectfully appeal to those voters that can make the difference, the ones who are not going to be entrepreneurs, are never going to be - run a - be a CEO in some big business, and they know it, but they would like to have their Social Security, they would like to have Medicare as they paid for all their years, and they'd like rising wages rather than falling wages.

  Jeff Sessions

  Running, Fall, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Obamacare is the nation's biggest job killer and stands in the way of our country's economic growth and prosperity. It should be defunded and repealed. President Obama should hear the pleas from the untold number of Americans who are losing their jobs, wages, and healthcare plans, and Congress should act immediately to stop Obamacare from inflicting any more damage on the country on our hard-working citizens.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

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• I've had very little negative pushback. I think people in the Senate know that I have believed, for a number of years, and have been outspoken that we need to listen to what the American people are telling us, and we need to focus more on the well-being of people who make lower wages, $50,000 and below.

  Jeff Sessions

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.politico.com

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• If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

  Michael Hudson

  People, Growing, Want

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible.

  Michael Hudson

  Helping, Economy, Terrible

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues. For instance, we have to listen to the concerns that working people, our forgotten working people, have over the record pace of immigration and it's impact on their jobs, wages, housing, schools, tax bills and general living conditions.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, School, Impact

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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