Quotes About Income

If you do not ensure that people are being paid a living wage, then you are going to have people who rely on government assistance. It is that simple.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

With respect to the world of football, I earn a normal wage. But compared to 99.9% of Spain and the rest of the world, I earn an obscene amount.

Wage violations are tantamount to theft.

The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers - those owning financial, physical, or so-called intellectual property - while real wages stagnate.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and - and capital gains.

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.

In addition to joblessness, of course, by the working of supply and demand, when you have a larger number of people unemployed, wages do not rise at the normal level, so that we had last year a drop in real wages.

Because the truth is our wages are really competitive and they're good.

Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.

The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.'

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages.