I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.


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We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage ...
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Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage.
JAMES HARDWAY
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
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[Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ...
MILTON FRIEDMAN
The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few p...
ELIZABETH WARREN
Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safet...
THOMAS E. PEREZ
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
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It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini...
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It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini...
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Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. E...
CHRISTINA ROMER
Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the mini...
GREGG THOMPSON
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU
The minimum wage should be a living wage.
JON OSSOFF
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. Howev...
HA-JOON CHANG
I think (wages) will level off, but it will never be a minimum-wage market again.
GLEN HELTON
The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL
The most eye opening view is the unequivocal support for an increase in the minimum wage.
HUNTER BACOT
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our worker...
DALTON MCGUINTY
Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi...
DAVID BOWLES
Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.
LINDA MCMAHON
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
If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum w...
DON NICKLES
Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON
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
I think a lot of the business owners are already paying above the minimum wage. The minimum wage is ...
BUCK LAYNE
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l...
JON CORZINE
The real minimum wage is zero unemployment.
THOMAS SOWELL
We don't want the minimum wage increase.
ANGELA JONES
Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ...
KENNETH LANGONE
I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you min...
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A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE
Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.
KAREN HANDEL
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w...
LINDA MCMAHON
It's pretty amazing what they are trying to do. It's a complete slap in the face to our workers. We ...
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Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
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Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me...
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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...
THOMAS SOWELL
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
There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY
What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
THOM TILLIS
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is ...
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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
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' empl...
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The vast majority are high school students or college students, working part-time. So when you talk ...
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I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.
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Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR
Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
ADAM COHEN
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
Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically, philosophically and politically.
MARC FREEDMAN
[The GMB has welcomed news of tomorrow's increase in the minimum wage to more than £5 an hour for a...
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Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go u...
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The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible ...
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There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we di...
CHRIS ROCK
Working for minimum wage is like slavery but easier on the slave owner.
JASON CASE
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
NORM COLEMAN
The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
SHERROD BROWN
Many small retailers couldn't sustain a higher minimum wage. It would drive some out of business.
BARRY HELLBERG
It's tough when you're working for minimum wage and have four kids.
ANDY PAYNE
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
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By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and f...
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America's economy is best served by reasonable increases in the minimum wage, so that we don't hurt ...
DANNY DIAZ
I think you'll find that minimum wage is pretty much dictated by the market.
JAMES HARDWAY
Eighty percent of participants pay all their staff above the minimum wage, and many of them are conc...
DAVID LOWE
When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
There are some businesses that will be affected by this, but the majority of businesses are definite...
MARSHA GORDON
Rhode Island is the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum wage revolution in the states. I can...
JEN KERN
The thing that was striking about the minimum wage survey is that every group was in favor of increa...
DEAN DEBNAM
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
BRUCE RAUNER
Health care is becoming less affordable every year. We'll continue to have to worry about whether lo...
GARY CLAXTON
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small busi...
J. D. HAYWORTH
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL
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
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill ...
NEWT GINGRICH
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
SHERROD BROWN
We've seen very little wage increases for unskilled workers since the 1980s.
ANNE CAHILL
This is one of those rare instances where the workers and the employers are on the same side. It wil...
GREG SHELL
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
Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA
The immediate impact of the minimum-wage increase will probably be negligible because we are already...
CAROL PREGILL
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker...
BERNIE SANDERS
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
ADAM COHEN
McDonald's does not close down and move across the state line when you raise the minimum wage.
DAN CANTOR
Inequalities at the bottom of the US wage distribution have closely followed the evolution of thee m...
THOMAS PIKETTY
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
There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th...
GERRY BRADLEY
If you're making the minimum wage you want it raised. If you're an employer it's going to affect you...
BUCK LAYNE
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
THOMAS PEREZ
It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wag...
JEFF COLLINS
I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get m...
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We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minim...
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What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct...
SUZANNE COLLINS
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
"Real," I answer. "Because t...
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
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The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
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For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
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You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
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Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
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And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec...
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I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
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Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
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You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
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Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
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It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
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While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
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Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
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Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
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Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
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Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
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But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
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The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
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She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
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When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
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But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
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Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
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He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
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But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
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Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
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It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
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If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
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Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
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Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
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Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
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I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
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I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
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Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
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