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Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.
Todd Tiahrt
Today
History
Nation
Before
Our
Those
More
Higher
Wage
Been
Than
American
The History Of
Average
Workers
Working
Ever
President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.
Tom Perez
Class
Opportunity
Country
Nation
Matters
President
President Obama
Pressing
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Obama
Facing
Thriving
Most
Inequality
Wage
Provides
Going
Ladders
Middle
Middle Class
Then
Income
Income Inequality
Believes
Raise
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.
Tom Perez
People
Money
Will
Country
Too
Pump
Back
Benefit
Spending
Minimum
Minimum Wage
About
Pockets
More
Put
Goods
Economy
Wage
Which
Workers
Across
Communities
Help
Businesses
Million
Services
Raising
The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.
Tom Perez
Woman
Earner
Typical
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Responsible
Running
Most
Likely
Household
Wage
Provider
Children
Paying
Bills
Raising
Raising Children
If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.
Tom Perez
Time
You
Business
Result
Fly
Gone
Every
Lunch
Increase
Every Time
Correct
Out
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Restaurants
Because
Got
Opponents
Wage
Were
Any
Then
Should
Seattle
Bring
Raising
If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.
Tom Perez
Work
Will
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Wage
Trump
Yes
Donald
Donald Trump
Wants
Raise
If you and your skills are a complement to the computer, your wage and labor market prospects are likely to be cheery. If your skills do not complement the computer, you may want to address that mismatch. Ever more people are starting to fall on one side of the divide or the other. That's why 'average is over.'
Tyler Cowen
You
People
Fall
Other
Side
Complement
Market
Address
More
More People
Divide
Computer
Over
Prospects
Likely
Wage
Labor
May
Want
Average
Skills
Your
Why
Ever
Starting
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
Vernon L. Smith
Work
First
Bicycle
Side
Delivering
Wage
West
West Side
Began
Grade
Store
Orders
Customers
Who
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
William Vickrey
Job
Situation
Living
Ought
Willing
Responsible
Find
Hours
Employment
Practically
Accept
Within
Wage
Person
Any
Which
Available
Paying
Reasonably
Living Wage
Desirable
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
You
Hurt
Negative
Will
Job
Creation
Too
Job Creation
Minimum
Minimum Wage
High
Impact
How
Wage
Wages
Effects
Depends
Average
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
You
People
Problem
Job
Single
Market
Easily
Out
Minimum
Minimum Wage
More
Vary
Allow
Pushed
Wage
Maybe
Different
The Problem With
Regions
Younger
Younger People
Skilled
Should
Less
Who
President Trump should appoint a special presidential envoy and empower them to wage an unconventional war against Taliban and Daesh forces, to hold the corrupt officials accountable and to negotiate with their Afghan counterparts and the Afghan Taliban that are willing to reconcile with Kabul.
Erik Prince
War
President
President Trump
Presidential
Negotiate
Willing
Reconcile
Corrupt
Unconventional
Counterparts
Taliban
Empower
Forces
Wage
Trump
Accountable
Officials
Afghan
Hold
Against
Them
Should
Special
Appoint
As I'm sure everyone would agree, carers who do the difficult job of looking after the elderly and vulnerable deserve to be paid a decent wage that they can actually live on.
Emily Thornberry
Job
Looking
Live
Difficult
Everyone
Would
Sure
Vulnerable
Wage
Decent
After
Elderly
Paid
Who
Agree
Deserve
Actually
Difficult Job
To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.
John McDonnell
Rights
Poverty
Mandatory
Living
Restored
Tackling
Employers
Protect
Trade
Trade Union
Wage
Wages
Effective
Themselves
Exploitative
Workers
Should
Union
Basic
Living Wage
My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'
Marco Rubio
People
Better
Pay
Ways
More
Higher
Federal
Simply
Better Ways
Empower
Becomes
Wage
Question
Than
Mandate
Want
Enduring
Level
When I went to FC Groningen, I had to take my bike to training - my first wage went on driving lessons. Before I signed my contract, I was 15 or 16 and working as a dishwasher in a Breda restaurant.
Virgil van Dijk
Training
First
Before
Signed
Restaurant
Take
Had
Driving
Wage
Contract
Dishwasher
Bike
Working
Lessons
Obama's gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He's got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In fact, the very fact he's talking about the minimum wage is evidence there is no robust job market.
Rush Limbaugh
Job
Market
Evidence
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Obama
About
Fact
He
Talk
Talking
Robust
Got
Wage
Brag
Very
In Fact
Cannot
Gonna
Successes
Santa
Santa Claus
Play
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
Government
Strong
Whatever
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Threat
Feared
Laws
Only
Both
Protecting
Call
Real
Wage
Enforcement
Chooses
Right
Level
If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.
Billy Bob Thornton
Entertainment
Business
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Would
Would-Be
Entertainment Business
Making
Gotten
Still
Wage
Union membership is not the sole guarantor of job security and a living wage, but nonunion factory workers do not enjoy the same protections as union workers. They're subject to exploitation, underpayment and lower standards of workplace safety - which is also often the case for manufacturing workers outside the United States.
Sean Doolittle
Safety
Job
Exploitation
Enjoy
Living
Sole
States
Job Security
Membership
Security
Case
Factory
Outside
Also
Wage
Subject
Same
Often
Which
Workers
Lower
Standards
Manufacturing
Union
Workplace
United
United States
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.
Wayne Static
Time
Me
Happy
Job
Believe
I Believe
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Something
Factory
Well
Wage
Just
Which
I'm in business to make money. However, I'm a mayor who fought for a living wage. And I believe healthcare should be a right.
Wayne Messam
Business
Money
Believe
Living
I Believe
Make
Healthcare
Wage
However
Mayor
Should
Who
Fought
Right
Living Wage
Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.
Ted Lieu
Everyone
Rising
Prices
Understand
Wage
Affect
American
Regardless
Stagnation
Infrastructure
Race
Inadequate
When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.
Ken Loach
Life
Family
You
Job
Young
Would
Find
Could
Had
Wage
Were
Up
Skill
Bring
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