Wages Quotes - Page 9

• Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  People, Minimum Wage, Problem

  "Economics". Book by Joseph Stiglitz, 1993.

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• Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at work--have taken the economic rug from under that half of married women who divorce.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Husband, Children, Taken

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• A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Children, Self, Democracy

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours, May 24, 1937.

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• Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Class, Quality, Aristocracy

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• Understanding is the wages of faith.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Understanding

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• If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
  You may get a bland smile from these sages;
  But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
  Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cracks, Crowns, Sage

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Family Fool”

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• [I'm planning]for starters, build a permanent border wall between the US and Mexico that Mexico "must pay for". The plan proposes various sticks to force Mexico to cooperate, such as impounding all remittance payments to Mexico from illegal wages earned in the US.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Borders, Mexico

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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, Minimum Wage, Answers

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

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• Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.

  Tobias Crisp

  Christian, Father, Medicine

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• Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.

  J. C. Ryle

  Grace, Battle, Wish

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.194, Letcetera Publishing

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• These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.

  A. E. Housman

  Fall, August, Heaven

  1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.

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• If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Pay, Cheat

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.216, Graphic Arts Books

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• Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

  Bernard Baruch

  Money, Fall, Unemployment

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• Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Giving, Community

  John White, Cecil Calvert Baltimore (2d Baron), Charles Hudson, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1904). “The planting of colonies in New England”

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• The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

  Alistair Darling

  Business, Keys, People

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• We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Economy, Equilibrium, Particular

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• Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Men, Careers, Pills

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• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Work, Stupid

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Summer, Country, Jobs

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• If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be.

  Sumner Slichter

  Money, Years, Would Be

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• As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

  Harold Ford, Jr.

  Jobs, Smart, America

  "A little advice for Obama at the half". fortune.com. November 18, 2010.

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• The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on the rise of Christianity. . . . Although they do not inquire into the future, and either forget or do not know the past, yet defame present times as most unusually beset, as it were, by evils because there is belief in Christ and worship of God, and increasingly less worship of idols.

  Orosius

  Time, Fall, Past

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• Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

  Karel Capek

  Eugenics, Answers, Painful

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation.

  Robert Reich

  Years, Workers, Workforce

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• The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former grows ever wilder, ever more dysfunctional in its extremities; whilst the latter seeks to increase its measure of control, until such efforts acquire diabolical tyranny.' - Traveller

  Steven Erikson

  War, Civilization, Effort

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