Quotes About Income

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

It is true that rich people can spend more money than middle class people, but there's this upper limit on what we can spend. I drive a very nice car, but it's only one car. I don't own a thousand, even though I earn a thousand times the median wage. I have a few jackets, not a few thousand.

If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.

It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.

Obviously, we want people to be paid a wage that could help make ends meet, but when you increase artificially the cost of labor to do a job, then oftentimes, those jobs will just go away.

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.

Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.

Middle-income wage earners have essentially had no pay increases since 2000.

One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.

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

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

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.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight.

The worst job I ever had was working in the call center of an electric company. I sat in a tiny cubicle getting yelled at every day so I could earn minimum wage.

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

I think that people need a livable wage.