You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
I pay a living wage, I believe in healthcare, I declare all my income, and I don't cut corners.
Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.
You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.
There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.
It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
It is easier to wage war with wise enemies than be at peace with foolish friends.
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
