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I think (wages) will level off, but it will never be a minimum-wage market again.
GLEN HELTON I think a lot of the business owners are already paying above the minimum wage. The minimum wage is ...
BUCK LAYNE![]()
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT Why is minimum wage a number that is set in stone why don't we treat minimum wage rates like taxes t...
KENNETH WATERS JR Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi...
DAVID BOWLES Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go u...
BETH BUSCH![]()
The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL The minimum wage should be a living wage.
JON OSSOFF![]()
What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
THOM TILLIS![]()
The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.
THOMAS SOWELL Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the mini...
GREGG THOMPSON It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wag...
JEFF COLLINS![]()
When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I think it's pretty much a no-brainer. James Webb is an extraordinary, unique candidate that comes a...
LOWELL FELD If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum w...
DON NICKLES Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
SHERROD BROWN There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY![]()
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN![]()
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA There are some businesses that will be affected by this, but the majority of businesses are definite...
MARSHA GORDON Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR Rhode Island is the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum wage revolution in the states. I can...
JEN KERN It's been a frustrating week for us. The tax credit to businesses for health care is our number one ...
GREGG THOMPSON No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE We don't want the minimum wage increase.
ANGELA JONES![]()
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w...
LINDA MCMAHON Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages,
SUSAN MILLER Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages.
SUSAN MILLER![]()
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. Howev...
HA-JOON CHANG I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.
GRACE POE Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ...
KENNETH LANGONE Eighty percent of participants pay all their staff above the minimum wage, and many of them are conc...
DAVID LOWE A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.
KAREN HANDEL![]()
[Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically, philosophically and politically.
MARC FREEDMAN![]()
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...
THOMAS SOWELL![]()
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you min...
CHRIS ROCK![]()
Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.
LINDA MCMAHON When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our worker...
DALTON MCGUINTY Working for minimum wage is like slavery but easier on the slave owner.
JASON CASE The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
SHERROD BROWN We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage.
JACK CAMPER It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.
JAMES COLLINS Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
ADAM COHEN The thing that was striking about the minimum wage survey is that every group was in favor of increa...
DEAN DEBNAM![]()
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI![]()
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE I think the market is pretty fully valued.
MICHAEL KASSEN![]()
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserv...
JIM CLYBURN![]()
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
BRUCE RAUNER If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up fr...
THOMAS E. PEREZ The most eye opening view is the unequivocal support for an increase in the minimum wage.
HUNTER BACOT (This) is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damag...
DIGBY JONES Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.
JAMES HARDWAY Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
SHERROD BROWN In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
ELIZABETH WARREN![]()
When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.
BRUCE RAUNER There is a definite need to increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was hoping the state would ...
PAUL COSTA![]()
The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out...
BERNIE SANDERS It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise......
J. B. PRITZKER![]()
There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we di...
CHRIS ROCK You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
NORM COLEMAN It's inevitable that we're going to see a minimum-wage increase. We have to face that reality.
BILL DOMBROWSKI![]()
Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats...
NOAM CHOMSKY We really need to find out, No. 1, the characteristics of these people, and No. 2, how many of them ...
PAMELA ATKINSON![]()
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON![]()
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
BILL CLINTON![]()
By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and f...
MAX KEISER Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me...
ALCEE HASTINGS We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minim...
ART PULASKI The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minim...
WILLIAM FUNG This is an absolute vote of confidence by the market in James? ability to run the ship in the absenc...
DAVID HALLIDAY There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY It's tough when you're working for minimum wage and have four kids.
ANDY PAYNE The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state lead...
JOE MILLER Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT It's pretty amazing what they are trying to do. It's a complete slap in the face to our workers. We ...
JULIAN POSADAS![]()
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill ...
NEWT GINGRICH I'm not against increasing the minimum wage. It's just that I don't think we have sufficient informa...
PAMELA ATKINSON The governor still believes it's appropriate for the federal government to take action but inaction ...
KATE PHILIPS The full measure of our personal happiness is dictated by how much we offer of ourselves in helping ...
G. BRIAN BENSON The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.
CHRIS CRAMER![]()
Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengt...
PAUL TONKO The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small busi...
J. D. HAYWORTH We believe that, negotiating with the opposition, we won't have trouble approving the biggest minimu...
ARLINDO CHINAGLIA Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL![]()
Inequalities at the bottom of the US wage distribution have closely followed the evolution of thee m...
THOMAS PIKETTY![]()
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
MARCO RUBIO Since Schwarzenegger was elected, the minimum wage has already lost 10 percent of its purchasing pow...
ART PULASKI I worked min (minimum) wage my first job, and I got a raise when I memorized what goes on a hamburge...
MIKE SPENCE You've heard New Orleans is poor, ... Well, it's poor because the government lets it be that way. Th...
FRANCISCO LOPEZ It seemed like we dictated pretty much the whole game and it looked like we kind of got lulled into ...
JACK SKILLE![]()
Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
TOM STOPPARD![]()
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker...
BERNIE SANDERS
GLEN HELTON I think a lot of the business owners are already paying above the minimum wage. The minimum wage is ...
BUCK LAYNE
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... JOHN SUNUNU The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT Why is minimum wage a number that is set in stone why don't we treat minimum wage rates like taxes t...
KENNETH WATERS JR Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi...
DAVID BOWLES Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go u...
BETH BUSCH
The real minimum wage is zero. THOMAS SOWELL The minimum wage should be a living wage.
JON OSSOFF
What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant. THOM TILLIS
The real minimum wage is zero unemployment. THOMAS SOWELL Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the mini...
GREGG THOMPSON It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wag...
JEFF COLLINS
When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp... CHRISTINA ENGELA I think it's pretty much a no-brainer. James Webb is an extraordinary, unique candidate that comes a...
LOWELL FELD If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum w...
DON NICKLES Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
SHERROD BROWN There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. HARRY TRUMAN
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. THOMAS PEREZ The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA There are some businesses that will be affected by this, but the majority of businesses are definite...
MARSHA GORDON Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR Rhode Island is the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum wage revolution in the states. I can...
JEN KERN It's been a frustrating week for us. The tax credit to businesses for health care is our number one ...
GREGG THOMPSON No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE We don't want the minimum wage increase.
ANGELA JONES
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w... LINDA MCMAHON Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages,
SUSAN MILLER Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages.
SUSAN MILLER
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. Howev... HA-JOON CHANG I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.
GRACE POE Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ...
KENNETH LANGONE Eighty percent of participants pay all their staff above the minimum wage, and many of them are conc...
DAVID LOWE A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.
KAREN HANDEL
[Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ... MILTON FRIEDMAN Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically, philosophically and politically.
MARC FREEDMAN
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th... THOMAS SOWELL
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you min... CHRIS ROCK
Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. LINDA MCMAHON When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our worker...
DALTON MCGUINTY Working for minimum wage is like slavery but easier on the slave owner.
JASON CASE The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
SHERROD BROWN We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage.
JACK CAMPER It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.
JAMES COLLINS Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
ADAM COHEN The thing that was striking about the minimum wage survey is that every group was in favor of increa...
DEAN DEBNAM
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. NANCY PELOSI
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE I think the market is pretty fully valued.
MICHAEL KASSEN
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserv... JIM CLYBURN
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels. BRUCE RAUNER If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up fr...
THOMAS E. PEREZ The most eye opening view is the unequivocal support for an increase in the minimum wage.
HUNTER BACOT (This) is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damag...
DIGBY JONES Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.
JAMES HARDWAY Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
SHERROD BROWN In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
ELIZABETH WARREN
When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars. BRUCE RAUNER There is a definite need to increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was hoping the state would ...
PAUL COSTA
The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out... BERNIE SANDERS It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise......
J. B. PRITZKER
There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we di... CHRIS ROCK You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
NORM COLEMAN It's inevitable that we're going to see a minimum-wage increase. We have to face that reality.
BILL DOMBROWSKI
Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats... NOAM CHOMSKY We really need to find out, No. 1, the characteristics of these people, and No. 2, how many of them ...
PAMELA ATKINSON
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo... WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo... BILL CLINTON
By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and f... MAX KEISER Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me...
ALCEE HASTINGS We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minim...
ART PULASKI The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minim...
WILLIAM FUNG This is an absolute vote of confidence by the market in James? ability to run the ship in the absenc...
DAVID HALLIDAY There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY It's tough when you're working for minimum wage and have four kids.
ANDY PAYNE The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state lead...
JOE MILLER Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT It's pretty amazing what they are trying to do. It's a complete slap in the face to our workers. We ...
JULIAN POSADAS
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill ... NEWT GINGRICH I'm not against increasing the minimum wage. It's just that I don't think we have sufficient informa...
PAMELA ATKINSON The governor still believes it's appropriate for the federal government to take action but inaction ...
KATE PHILIPS The full measure of our personal happiness is dictated by how much we offer of ourselves in helping ...
G. BRIAN BENSON The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.
CHRIS CRAMER
Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengt... PAUL TONKO The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small busi...
J. D. HAYWORTH We believe that, negotiating with the opposition, we won't have trouble approving the biggest minimu...
ARLINDO CHINAGLIA Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL
Inequalities at the bottom of the US wage distribution have closely followed the evolution of thee m... THOMAS PIKETTY
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. MARCO RUBIO Since Schwarzenegger was elected, the minimum wage has already lost 10 percent of its purchasing pow...
ART PULASKI I worked min (minimum) wage my first job, and I got a raise when I memorized what goes on a hamburge...
MIKE SPENCE You've heard New Orleans is poor, ... Well, it's poor because the government lets it be that way. Th...
FRANCISCO LOPEZ It seemed like we dictated pretty much the whole game and it looked like we kind of got lulled into ...
JACK SKILLE
Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order TOM STOPPARD
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker... BERNIE SANDERS
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