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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama
Work
Today
Health
Family
Take For Granted
Secure
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Security
Bear
Week
Take
Retirement
Health Insurance
Insurance
Wage
Leave
Label
Labor
Labor Movement
Movement
Social
Much
Granted
Plans
Union
Helped
Social Security
Medicare
For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.
Bruce Rauner
People
Young
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Higher
Stepping
Stepping Stone
Employment
Wage
Stone
Young People
Many
Levels
When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre
War
Rich
Wage
Die
Poor
Who
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Today
Youth
Rest
Earning
Recognizing
Thousand
Ten
Absolutely
Supporting
Make
Nonsense
Wage
Breakthrough
Capable
Us
Right
Technological
Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
Barack Obama
Work
Broken
Immigration
Matter
Will
Gun
Pay
Our
Right Thing
Kids
System
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Until
Equal
Equal Pay
Protecting
Equal Work
Still
Wage
Leave
Up
Families
Fixing
Get
Done
The Right Thing
Paid
Right
Thing
Things
Hardworking
Violence
Raising
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy
Care
Minds
Those
Plumbing
See
Entrust
Smaller
Wage
Than
Modern
Children
Paid
Paying
Cynics
Whom
Harm
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
James P. Hoffa
Class
Rights
Pain
Rug
Corporate
States
Economy
Wage
Go
Discrimination
Goes
Where
Cannot
While
Gains
Theft
Worker
Workers
Regular
Should
Swept
Workplace
Functional
United
United States
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Adolf Hitler
War
Purpose
Alliance
Wage
Any
Intention
Senseless
Useless
Whose
It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love
War
Peace
Sacrifice
Enough
Say
Must
Wage
To Love
Necessary
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
War
Poverty
Our
Resources
Unnecessarily
Must
Wage
Unemployment
Precious
Disease
Wars
Wasting
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Leo Tolstoy
War
Ugly
Try
Unjust
Must
Voice
Within
Stifle
Wage
Themselves
Who
Conscience
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Bernie Sanders
War
Class
Political
Greed
Elsewhere
Corporate
Destroying
Moral
Leaders
Policies
Wage
Wall
Wall Street
America
Middle
Middle Class
Against
Us
Billionaires
Let Us
Whose
Street
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Other
Tremendously
Press
Propaganda
Support
Without
Opinion
Wage
Conditions
Cannot
Which
Forms
Public
Molded
Public Opinion
Present
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.
Robert Reich
Change
Benefits
Stronger
Unions
Way
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Percent
Structure
Only
Higher
Bottom
Economy
Least
Wage
Requires
Grow
If you go from $7 to $15 in a very short period of time, potentially that could have a negative effect on some economies because that is a very big jump. And you're saying to businesses that employ a large number of minimum wage workers, your payroll is basically going to double. That could have a negative impact. It would have to be studied.
Andrew Cuomo
Saying
Time
You
Negative
Big
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Would
Impact
Some
Potentially
Could
Studied
Economies
Employ
Period
Because
Wage
Go
Effect
Jump
Very
Going
Short
Short Period
Double
Workers
Your
Payroll
Businesses
Large
Large Number
Basically
Number
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Jon Corzine
Family
Poverty
Rich
Earning
Out
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Fact
Lift
Does
Wage
Gets
Current
In Fact
Even
Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Work
Welcome
Law
Result
Alien
Exploitation
Tremendously
Our
Willing
Would
Would-Be
Take
Protected
Wage
Subjected
Undocumented
Person
Shores
Unfortunately
Who
Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.
Bernie Sanders
War
Needs
Money
Political
Military
Spending
Moral
Wage
Itself
Human
Against
Cut
Us
Use
Human Needs
Let Us
Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.
George Packer
Pressure
Country
Spending
Relentless
Rural
Rural Areas
Small
Both
Area
Prices
Consumer
Small Towns
Towns
Period
Employment
Wage
Wages
Came
Dominate
Decades
Walmart
Middle
Stagnation
Across
Explosive
Company
Downward
Growth
Applying
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
John F. Kerry
Today
Future
Technology
Reality
Job
Our
Jobs
NAFTA
New
Economy
Globalization
Wage
New Technology
Low-Level
Creating
Skills
Productivity
Based
Competing
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.
John L. Lewis
Property
Communism
Profit
Relation
System
Unreservedly
Investment
Institution
Employment
Wage
Opposed
Private
Private Property
Fully
Based
Right
The real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas Sowell
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Real
Wage
Zero
Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
Bernie Sanders
Fight
Free
Other
Our
Jobs
Must
Only
Free Trade
Countries
Disastrous
Trade
Trade Agreements
Wage
Mexico
End
American
Unfettered
Rewrite
China
Low
Products
Export
Agreements
Fundamentally
Number
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
James P. Hoffa
Food
Benefits
Pay
Earn
Jobs
Table
About
Outlook
Lifestyle
Fair
Employment
Housing
Wage
American
Improving
Sustain
Sustainable
Them
Workers
Skilled
Creating
Millions
Leftists wage the war on Christmas using their traditional methods - government fiat and the court system. They never win voting, and they certainly don't win in the free market, so they bravely fight their battles through big government.
Milo Yiannopoulos
War
Christmas
Government
Fight
Win
Voting
Free
Big
Market
System
Battles
Free Market
Through
Never
Court
Wage
Traditional
Methods
Big Government
Bravely
Fiat
Certainly
Using
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
Henry Rollins
You
Made
Pay
Living
Would
Would-Be
Able
Wage
America
American
Paid
Products
Living Wage
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