Quotes of: Minimum Keyword

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

Russ Carnahan

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

Sherrod Brown

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Benjamin Tucker

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

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

Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Marco Rubio

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

Thomas Perez

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

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

John Freeman

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Elizabeth Warren