87 Minimum Wage Quotes for You to Enjoy

If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on. Fred DeLuca

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Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered. Gene Siskel

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

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Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining the skills that can make a low income or middle class worker a high income worker. This is so obvious that one wonders why liberals keep championing the minimum wage cause. Stephen Moore

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In the general economy, you get government involved in making market decisions - first of all, they're going to get it wrong. For a minimum wage, you will actually reduce the number of jobs available. Ron Johnson

I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law. Max Keiser

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Minimum wage law is the 'People's Fed.' Tie minimum wage to money supply. If there is pushback against this idea, then shut down the Fed and its ability to distort the economy, penalizing labor, or make the Fed's distortions available to all businesses and all workers. Max Keiser

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

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Laws protecting this right - whatever the level of the minimum wage, and whatever the Government chooses to call it - are only as strong as the threat of enforcement is both real and feared. Emily Thornberry

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I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom. Pramila Jayapal

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No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers. Jason Kander

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

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My priorities are a fair trade policy in this country, increasing the minimum wage, going after the drug companies for the way that they charge and their whole pricing structure that have put absolutely amazing drugs out of reach for so many Americans. Sherrod Brown

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

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As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work. Colleen Hanabusa

The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is open to raising the minimum wage, the best approach is to grow faster. Peter Navarro

Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum wages can be beneficial, as it makes workers more productive. Ha-Joon Chang

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Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists. Christina Romer

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

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Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages. Matt Gonzalez

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The impact of a minimum wage depends on how high it is to average wages. If you have too high a minimum wage, it will hurt job creation, and you will have negative job effects. Zanny Minton Beddoes

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The problem with one single minimum wage is that you don't allow for younger people, who are less skilled and maybe more easily pushed out of the job market, or that the minimum wage should vary for different regions. Zanny Minton Beddoes

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