Quotes About Employment

What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.

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 been a proponent of dramatically expanding the AmeriCorps program. By increasing the pay of participants to a living wage, it can act as a jobs program that, rather than trying to predict what will be technically viable jobs, will value social support and provide jobs that make communities stronger.

When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.

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.

When you work extra, you should be paid extra. That's what the Fair Labor Standards Act said. And I've met so many people who are working 60-70 hours a week, and they are effectively working 20 hours for free because they are making a little bit above the minimum wage, because the 2004 regulation enables employers to do that. That's not fair.

Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.

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

By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after.

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

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

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.

In a perfect world, people don't have to move to another country to get a higher wage. Ultimately, they need only be able to participate in producing output that is sold internationally.

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

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.

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

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.

In passing the National Minimum Wage Act in 1998, the then-Labour Government did more than just establish the legal right to a minimum wage, significant as that was. More importantly, the Act made non-compliance a criminal offence.