Wages Quotes - Page 18

• Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Mean, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.

  David Rolf

  Mean, Community, Basics

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

  David Rolf

  Working Conditions, Fast Food, Achieve

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going - they're below what they were in 2000. People are hurting. Things aren't going well for them.

  Jeff Sessions

  Hurt, Mean, People

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

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• I think Donald Trump is moving to - and will continue to move to the economic argument, as to why what he's doing is - represents a commitment to stand up to big business, to international corporations who favor more immigration and lower wages - that's what they favor - and a defense of the interest of the American people who go to work every day.

  Jeff Sessions

  Moving, Commitment, Thinking

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• We should create an America in which it's - we can - Americans have a better chance to progress wages and job prospects, and we can do that.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, America, Progress

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Favors

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.

  David Graeber

  Mean, Differences, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.

  Nicholas von Hoffman

  Wisdom, Jobs, War

  Nicholas Von Hoffman (1970). “Left at the post”, Crown

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• Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now just a memory. Progressives like to talk like Barack Obama likes to talk forever about poverty in America. And if a talk did any good, we'd have overcome those deep problems long ago. This explains why under the most liberal president we have had so far, poverty in America is worse, especially for our fellow citizens who were promised better and who need it most.

  Paul Ryan

  Memories, Long Ago, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• One of the major forces driving the decline in wages and the concentration of wealth at the top is the offshoring of American jobs overseas - reducing wages not only in manufacturing but also across the economy.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Concentration Of Wealth, Driving

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility so as to bridge periods of need in certain phases of production. Some employers have taken advantage of the model to push down wages. In general, we must strive for equal pay for equal work.

  Martin Schulz

  Taken, Equal Pay, Bridges

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that would be better. Or we pay wages in the public sector which are roughly equivalent to the productivity in the private sector and we don't therefore make it a special benefit to get a bureaucratic position.

  James M. Buchanan

  Trying, Special, Would Be

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Special interests don't want border controls because uncontrolled immigration lowers wages, but the job of a president is to fight for higher pay for all Americans, including recent legal immigrants living here today.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Fighting, Special

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Order, Firsts, Invert

  1889 On the London dock strike.

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• Common, ordinary, everyday Democrats, not leftists, there may be - if the agenda gets implemented and this country starts humming on the domestic side and if jobs come back and if the economy gets up to 3% growth and is sustained and the job market expands accordingly and people's wages go up, it won't matter.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Jobs, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Powerful, Exercise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Jobs are pouring out of America; you see what's going on with all of the companies leaving our country, going to Mexico and other places, low pay, low wages, mass instability overseas, no matter where you look. The middle east is a disaster. North Korea - we'll take care of it folks; we're going to take care of it all. I just want to let you know, I inherited a mess.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Korea

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also helped spawn the housing bubble that gave us the financial crisis of 2008, the lingering effects of which have forced many OWS protesters to try to launch their careers in by far the most inhospitable labor market we've seen since the Great Depression. Even those recent graduates who manage to find jobs will suffer a lifelong penalty in reduced wages.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Careers, Suffering

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

  Barack Obama

  Retirement, Kids, America

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.

  Barack Obama

  Impact, Design, Childhood

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is.

  Noam Chomsky

  Christian, Children, Crazy

  Source: www.iww.org

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• We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Rights, African American

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other Republican ever before, [Donald Trump] is going to focus on trying to tighten the labor market directly through discouraging outsourcing and tightening up on immigration, all towards the goal of actually increasing wages, that's a new focus for the Republican Party and a very important one.

  Rich Lowry

  Party, Cutting, Goal

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages.

  E. J. Dionne

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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