Minimum Wage Quotes
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
— J. D. Hayworth
The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
— Robert J. Garagiola
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
— Digby Jones, Baron Jones Of Birmingham
The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.
— Mitch McConnell
The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
— Jackson Browne
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.
— Richard Trumka
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
— Sherrod Brown
The real minimum wage is zero.
— Thomas Sowell
I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.
— Hillary Clinton
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.
— Murray Rothbard
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
— Sherrod Brown
It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.
— Russ Carnahan
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
— Barack Obama
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.
— Chris Christie
Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.
— Walter E. Williams
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.
— Benjamin Todd Jealous
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
— Elizabeth Warren
A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.
— Bernie Sanders
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
— Milton Friedman
If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.
— Marco Rubio
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
— Nancy Pelosi
Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.
— Joseph Stiglitz
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
— Newt Gingrich
How can anyone live off of minimum wage?
— Tom Douglas
Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.
— Sophia Amoruso
6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.
— Russ Carnahan
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
— Sherwood Boehlert
Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.
— Vida Dutton Scudder
Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
— Dan Aykroyd
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
— Barbara Mikulski
A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
— Steve Hanke
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.
— Nick Hanauer
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
— Sherrod Brown
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
— Elizabeth Warren
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
— Milton Friedman
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
— Russ Carnahan
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
— Bill Pascrell
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.
— Kenneth Langone
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
— Marco Rubio
Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.
— Peter Schiff
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.
— Milton Friedman
President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
— Thomas Perez
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
— Elizabeth Warren
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.
— Iris Dement
We have to raise the minimum wage.
— Martin O'Malley
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
— Edmund Phelps
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
— Jim Clyburn
Minimum wage, minimum effort
— Graham McNamee
Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs,
— Hillary Clinton
