Quotes of: Minimum-wage Keyword

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

Sherrod Brown

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

Sherwood Boehlert

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

Bernie Sanders

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goo...

Thomas Perez

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

Russ Carnahan

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Thomas Perez

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

Norm Coleman

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Charles B. Rangel

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

Benjamin Todd Jealous

Recall that the minimum wage was initially conceived as a method to exclude undesirables from the workforce.

Jeffrey Tucker

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

J. D. Hayworth

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Jim Clyburn

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.

Bill Pascrell

A soldier wages war, and for what, minimum wage? I’d rather make love for free—or better still, get paid to have sex.

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Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

Christina Romer

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

Barbara Mikulski

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

Thomas Perez

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Sherrod Brown

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

Marco Rubio

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

Robert Reich

I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

Eva Longoria