Wages Quotes - Page 19

• Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Males, United States

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they won't go on strike, they won't call for benefits; they'll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that's optimal for corporations' economic health.

  Noam Chomsky

  Insecure, Healthy, Goes On

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• At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower than in 1979, when the neoliberal assault was taking off. That perfectly naturally causes resentment and fear, and combines with a tendency to blame the most vulnerable.

  Noam Chomsky

  Causes, Resentment, Blame

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, Bridges

  Source: time.com

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• Real median household incomes in the U.S. were basically the same in 1989 as in 2014. But we are also seeing similar challenges in the U.K. in the stagnation of real wages.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Real, Challenges, Income

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: time.com

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• The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if you look at surveys around Americans' attitudes on trade, the majority of the American people still support trade. But they're concerned about whether or not trade is fair, and whether we get the same access to other countries' markets that they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages, and so forth.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Attitude, Mean

  Source: time.com

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• The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Issues

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Pockets, Cash, Raises

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Growing, Easy

  "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

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• If we can create a climate among people that says that any serious candidate for president, Senate, governor, [the] House is going to have to talk about income inequality, raising wages in America, trade policy - that's a huge success. It's not putting pressure on a candidate. It's mobilizing people.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, People, House

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.

  Riane Eisler

  Childhood, Training, Credit

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If workers are overworked, or companies hire temps at low wages, this fundamentally comes down to the quality of life for a person. It's bigger than wages. They should be able to spend time with their families. And if they're single, they should be able to have fun and not spend every day of their life working 12 to 15 hours a day and never get a chance to take care of their well-being. To me, that's part of living a good life.

  Nina Turner

  Fun, Good Life, Quality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Care work is still primarily done by women for free in families and for poverty wages in the market, and this is a major reason that worldwide women are the mass of the poor and the poorest of the poor.

  Riane Eisler

  Done, Care, Poverty

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Education spurs growth and unlocks potential. After all, a single year of primary education creates a 10 to 20 percent increase in a woman's wages later in life. Education lowers the risk of disease and decreases the likelihood that a child will fall into violence and crime. And a child born to a literate mother is 50 percent more likely to survive past age five. No country has achieved sustained growth without at least 40 percent literacy for its adults.

  Shakira

  Mother, Country, Children

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• In a growing number of states, you're actually expected to pay back the costs of your imprisonment. Paying back all these fees, fines, and costs may be a condition of your probation or parole. To make matters worse, if you're one of the lucky few who actually manages to get a job following release from prison, up to 100% of your wages can be garnished to pay back all those fees, fines and court costs. One hundred percent.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Numbers, Pay

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Community, Immigration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only way people's wages are going to rise overall, or average median income is going to rise, is if you increase productivity.

  Charles Koch

  Average, People, Groups

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African American and Latino workers. We are going to have an immigration system that works, but one that works for the American people.

  Donald Trump

  People, African American, Immigration

  "No One Knows How Immigration Affects Wages and Jobs. Especially Donald Trump" by Susan Ferriss, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2018.

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• Jesus is the Son of God, we have a chance for God's blessings, God's salvation through our faith in Jesus Christ and all of us are sinners who fall short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin is death but through our faith that Jesus Christ, we can be saved.

  Jimmy Carter

  Jesus, Fall, Son

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• The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.

  Laura Bates

  Jobs, Children, Caring

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• What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to spend time with your kids, you don't get a chance to take a vacation every now and then, you don't get a chance to make a big purchase (which helps the economy). There's something wrong with that. This isn't about wages, this about quality of life.

  Nina Turner

  Hard Work, Kids, Vacation

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Rushing

  Source: time.com

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• Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.

  Nina Turner

  Should Have, Want, Management

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Workers' wages are not keeping up with inflation. Their wages are not on pace with the amount of work that they do. We work harder and longer in America and still people's wages are not keeping up with that.

  Nina Turner

  Hard Work, America, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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