Christina Romer
Related Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. SHERROD BROWN There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few p... ELIZABETH WARREN The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line. ADAM COHEN I think a lot of the business owners are already paying above the minimum wage. The minimum wage is ... BUCK LAYNE JOHN SUNUNU Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. ELIZABETH WARREN I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most. JAMES COLLINS MARSHA BLACKBURN The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families. SHERROD BROWN Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi... DAVID BOWLES It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wag... JEFF COLLINS On its surface, raising the minimum wage symbolizes the little guy. We represent another little guy ... JOT CONDIE THOMAS PEREZ MILTON FRIEDMAN Whether we were doing the minimum-wage increase or not this year, the wages were still going to go u... BETH BUSCH There are some businesses that will be affected by this, but the majority of businesses are definite... MARSHA GORDON It's tough when you're working for minimum wage and have four kids. ANDY PAYNE The vast majority are high school students or college students, working part-time. So when you talk ... ALLEN DOUGLAS We don't need 50 different minimum wages. Even some cities have their own minimum wage. JACK CAMPER Misclassification means workers are denied not just minimum wage and overtime but other social safet... THOMAS E. PEREZ Less than 3 percent of workers make straight minimum wage. JAMES HARDWAY When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our worker... DALTON MCGUINTY THOMAS PEREZ Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE BARACK OBAMA Eighty percent of participants pay all their staff above the minimum wage, and many of them are conc... DAVID LOWE Working for minimum wage is like slavery but easier on the slave owner. JASON CASE Connecticut will only have a strong economic future if we provide opportunities for all workers to e... DOUGLAS HALL We've seen very little wage increases for unskilled workers since the 1980s. ANNE CAHILL Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff... DANNY THOMPSON THOMAS SOWELL No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even l... JON CORZINE Many small retailers couldn't sustain a higher minimum wage. It would drive some out of business. BARRY HELLBERG The people we're dealing with are very low-wage workers. Five hundred dollars is a huge amount for t... MINSUN JI Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium ... KENNETH LANGONE Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances. ADAM COHEN THOMAS PEREZ The minimum wage should be a living wage. JON OSSOFF With our robust economy, American workers are finally seeing some improvement in the health benefits... LARRY LEVITT It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise...... J. B. PRITZKER The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame... SHERWOOD BOEHLERT By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a ... RICK SCOTT 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 And tip credit is a way that we are able to balance the wage in the restaurant so that the folks tha... CRAIG MILLER Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle... ALI BABAR It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini... DREW ALTMAN It is low-wage workers who are being hurt the most by the steady drip, drip, drip of coverage draini... DREW ALTMAN It says that [if] the crab industry can't find people to work for minimum wage, they can bring in pe... BAY BUCHANAN There is a crisis of labor rights in the state of New Jersey, and there is a crisis of people not ge... MAHONRRY HIDALGO We know it will be an uphill battle. Establishing a state minimum wage higher than the federal wage ... FARRELL QUINLAN EDMUND PHELPS JIM CLYBURN It's pretty amazing what they are trying to do. It's a complete slap in the face to our workers. We ... JULIAN POSADAS BRUCE RAUNER Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini... BILL PASCRELL Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is ... JAMES P. HOFFA RICHARD LINKLATER FABRIZIO MOREIRA HOWARD SCHULTZ HA-JOON CHANG DEJAN STOJANOVIC If the senator really wants to support an increase in the minimum wage, we should pass the minimum w... DON NICKLES If you're a friend to the working people of New York, and you're a friend to the labor movement, the... ANDREW CUOMO THOMAS SOWELL If you go from $7 to $15 in a very short period of time, potentially that could have a negative effe... ANDREW CUOMO This is one of those rare instances where the workers and the employers are on the same side. It wil... GREG SHELL Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bill... SHERROD BROWN These victories are the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum-wage revolution in the states. JEN KERN NANCY PELOSI There's a statute in the minimum wage law that allows municipalities and cities home rule to [set th... GERRY BRADLEY CHRIS ROCK If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or repl... JAN C. TING My priorities are a fair trade policy in this country, increasing the minimum wage, going after the ... SHERROD BROWN KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND CRAIG GROESCHEL A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment. STEVE HANKE We really need to find out, No. 1, the characteristics of these people, and No. 2, how many of them ... PAMELA ATKINSON THOMAS PEREZ People come to Northwest Arkansas because they hear about the economy. But they end up working a min... HEATHER THORDSEN THOMAS PIKETTY BERNIE SANDERS By and large the people we see coming here are coming because they can't feed their families and the... JOAN HARPER The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA 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 Not in terms of wage restraint. The government accepts that a wage freeze is not a possibility and w... FITZ JACKSON The governor still believes it's appropriate for the federal government to take action but inaction ... KATE PHILIPS Unions are asking for more, but we are still a long way from excessive demands. The wage restraint c... DIRK SCHUMACHER Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support th... BILL HALTER There are sectors of the world awash in money and venture capital, ... But if you are a woman with a... BILL EDWARDS You can't earn enough money getting paid minimum wage to pay your rent, utilities and eat. JAN PRUITT The most eye opening view is the unequivocal support for an increase in the minimum wage. HUNTER BACOT If you're making the minimum wage you want it raised. If you're an employer it's going to affect you... BUCK LAYNE (This) is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damag... DIGBY JONES It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.... JON CORZINE Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity... MATT GONZALEZ Rhode Island is the latest in what's shaping up to be a minimum wage revolution in the states. I can... JEN KERN The immediate impact of the minimum-wage increase will probably be negligible because we are already... CAROL PREGILL JACK KEMP Productivity always slows as the economy slows. If labor and wage costs are still on the rise and pr... WAYNE AYERS
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I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 
Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families. 
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. 
[Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the ... 
The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible ... 
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work,... 
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th... 
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' empl... 
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserv... 
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels. 
I wrote a script - a script about a guy working on the automobile assembly line; I never could get m... 
Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start... 
On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we ... 
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. Howev... 
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. 
The real minimum wage is zero. 
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. 
There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we di... 
Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care. 
If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. 
President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the natio... 
Inequalities at the bottom of the US wage distribution have closely followed the evolution of thee m... 
The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out... 
Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - t... 
The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero low... 
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues,... 
President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more... 
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds o... 
The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the... 
We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude... 
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Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. 
I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?... 
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. 
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. 
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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. 
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