Quotes About Minimum

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

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.

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

Regardless of what the minimum wage is, you really have the market wage. And if we're not taking care of our people, then we're going to lose good talent, at every level.

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.

I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don't believe that's the role of the federal government.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

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

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

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.

We focus sometimes too much on the minimum wage, and we should be talking about living wages and middle class wages and pensions and benefits and the kind of thing that people in the industrial Midwest talk about all the time.

Those who claim that they need cash because they are unable to pay labourers are those who are not paying minimum wages.

I do like my sugar at night, but I try to keep it to a minimum.

Minimum wages have not kept up with inflation (so that the real federal minimum wage in the United States in 2011 is 15 percent lower than it was almost a third of a century ago, in 1980);

And as he came he saw that it was spring,A time abhorrent to the nihilistOr searcher for the fecund minimum.

In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did was allow people's enthusiastic credulity to do the work for him.

In the winter time the temperature falls well below the legal minimum.

Her words held all the pointed innuendo that elderly ladies are able to achieve with the minimum of actual statement.