Quotes About Employment

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

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.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.

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

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

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.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

Because so many employers refuse to pay their workers a wage on which they can live - most Britons languishing below the poverty line are in work - the state has to spend billions of pounds a year on in-work benefits.

Every Kentuckian, regardless of background, should have access to a job that pays a living wage.

I've been out of work myself and hated it. Any work, even on a minimum wage, is better than none.

Feeling the pressure to find a job or make the wage we earn go as far as we need it to? That's totally relatable. Nearly all my pals, and definitely myself, have been in that situation. It's no fun.

I want to create an economy where minimum wage is a very brief stepping stone to higher-paying jobs so people can realize their dreams.

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

I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

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.

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