Quotes About Policy

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.

I do not support a livable wage.

I am quite uncomfortable using legislation to peg the minimum wage.

Barack Obama and Kay Hagan think that the minimum wage needs to be the same in the mountains of North Carolina and in the city of Boston - it makes no sense to me.

I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs.

Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.

A moderate tax on robots, even a temporary tax that merely slows the adoption of disruptive technology, seems a natural component of a policy to address rising inequality. Revenue could be targeted toward wage insurance, to help people replaced by new technology make the transition to a different career.

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

I think we've got to be competitive here in Illinois. It's critical we're competitive. We're hurting our economy by having the minimum wage above the national. We've got to move back to the national.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply.

If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up from $7.25 to $15 an hour - and there have been a number of studies that document just how much the price of a burger might go up if you increase the minimum wage. You match the costs, and the benefits far outweigh the costs.

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

I was considered the most progressive person the whole time I was in the legislature. I negotiated health care, I negotiated a minimum wage increase.

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.

To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.

On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I think, a very strong voice.

Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

The government shouldn't be in the business of subsidizing a business by allowing people to be paid starvation wages.

It's time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market is the best insurance policy we could have against a race to the bottom on wages, rights and protections that threaten British workers and that there is no 'jobs first Brexit' without it.

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

I hope we can agree that it's better to cut taxes substantially, robustly, for the middle class as opposed to the top 1 percent. That would lift people's wages or take-home pay. And when you do that, you automatically are reducing somewhat the big costs in their lives.

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.