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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

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BUCK LAYNE The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
ADAM COHEN Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
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BRUCE RAUNER The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' Th...
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CARL BERNSTEIN What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
THOM TILLIS When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp...
CHRISTINA ENGELA At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker...
BERNIE SANDERS Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi...
DAVID BOWLES Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the mini...
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SHERROD BROWN The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
SHERROD BROWN It's a huge race to the bottom in terms of what companies are doing to their workers. Communities in...
DAVE PETERSON Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...
THOMAS SOWELL Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' empl...
EDMUND PHELPS Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support th...
BILL HALTER I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w...
LINDA MCMAHON The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times....
JOHN FREEMAN Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
ADAM COHEN It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that...
ELLEN MALCOLM I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill ...
NEWT GINGRICH The biggest thing is the decline in wages for the low and moderate income people. Part of it is larg...
ELIZABETH MCNICHOL The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT Working a job should lift you out of poverty, not keep you in it.
BARBARA ZELTER Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virt...
MICHELE BACHMANN Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL Why is minimum wage a number that is set in stone why don't we treat minimum wage rates like taxes t...
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BAY BUCHANAN The minimum wage should be a living wage.
JON OSSOFF I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
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CLAIRE WOLFE There are some businesses that will be affected by this, but the majority of businesses are definite...
MARSHA GORDON If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum w...
DON NICKLES Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate...
LAURA CHINCHILLA [Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN Our goal was to build a foundation to attract advanced technology jobs with wage rates far exceeding...
CHARLES YATES The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible ...
THOMAS PEREZ There is a definite need to increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was hoping the state would ...
PAUL COSTA You can't earn enough money getting paid minimum wage to pay your rent, utilities and eat.
JAN PRUITT Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - ...
LINDA SANCHEZ The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
HARRY TRUMAN Before you apply to a job, I'd suggest you check out the job you're applying to. Especially in this ...
KEVIN WILCOX We don't have enough job growth, and the right kind of job growth to pull the working-class people o...
GERRY BRADLEY A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE In each instance, when we were talking about this, we were told that the high-wage jobs were going t...
TIM RYAN There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY This is probably due to companies paying out lower bonuses and lower than estimated wage increases.
PRAVIN GORDHAN My priorities are a fair trade policy in this country, increasing the minimum wage, going after the ...
SHERROD BROWN The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL Many small retailers couldn't sustain a higher minimum wage. It would drive some out of business.
BARRY HELLBERG Rhode Island is the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum wage revolution in the states. I can...
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RICK RIORDAN The most important social welfare program in America is a job.
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RICK SCOTT Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. E...
CHRISTINA ROMER The thing that was striking about the minimum wage survey is that every group was in favor of increa...
DEAN DEBNAM Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best socia...
J. D. HAYWORTH I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition ove...
NICK KROLL I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.
GRACE POE Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go u...
BETH BUSCH I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, s...
EVA LONGORIA I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you min...
CHRIS ROCK Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ...
KENNETH LANGONE Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage ...
FARRELL QUINLAN The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
H. RAP BROWN Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with ...
GRACE NAPOLITANO 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 Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.
LINDA MCMAHON Plain and simple, Congress must act to meet the needs of our constituents. We can do that by strengt...
PAUL TONKO The immediate impact of the minimum-wage increase will probably be negligible because we are already...
CAROL PREGILL I'm here today because our country needs a change in leadership, ... We need a leader who is really ...
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ART PULASKI 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 So when folks talk about the deficit and leaving the deficit for our children, we will never get out...
DEBBIE STABENOW There is a significant shortage of minority graduate business school students choosing hospital and ...
JACK BOVENDER The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.
THOMAS SOWELL We don't want the minimum wage increase.
ANGELA JONES often unacceptable conditions in which families in social difficulty live in our country.
BERTRAND DELANOE The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s co...
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RUSS PAULSEN If this fails to convince, I being out my secret weapon, announcing with portentous deliberation tha...
SARAH VOWELL It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5....
JON CORZINE (This) is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damag...
DIGBY JONES We're paying a reasonable wage compared to other wages available in the community. I don't know what...
GEORGE KRAWZOFF There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safet...
THOMAS E. PEREZ Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is ...
JAMES P. HOFFA There is still a wage gap in every single job classification except one or two, ... There still is d...
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BARBARA LEE I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slop...
BARBARA LEE We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must ...
BARBARA LEE We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served t...
BARBARA LEE I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in thei...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds...
BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER