Quotes About Income

His family and lifestyle required far more money than he could ever pay from his salary

place, where man does not have respect-honour, no sources of income/employment, suitable well wishing friends/ relations, facilities for learning-education, such a place is most unsuitable. It should be left without any delay.

It is difficult to predict the future of an economy in which it takes more brains to figure out the tax on our income than it does to earn it.

Voters in my constituency do not feel people who are not working should get more than those in work.

Sure, if you're a well to do family, you always have the option of sending your children to private schools where teachers spend less time disciplining kids and more time teaching them. However, this option is beyond the reach of most households. And this is what makes school vouchers such a promising solution for lower and middle income families.

America is the only high income nation without a paid family leave program. This means that if you or a family member gets sick, there is no guarantee that you can take the time you need to take care of yourself or your loved one, leaving already vulnerable families in the position of making hard decisions in cases of illness.

Skills development as a means to income generation is the key to integrate vulnerable migrants into the mainstream of society and to equip them for an eventual return home.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.

Millions of Americans do essential work but are not paid a living wage.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

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.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.

Before the government decides to raise the minimum wage, it must consider the effects of the tax and benefits merry-go-round that affects the low-paid.

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

People will say 'how can you have a plane when your workers are on minimum wage?' I said 'but I don't set the minimum wage.' If the minimum wage would be the living wage, then the Government who set the rules should set it at the living wage. That's how I look at it.

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.