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If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.
Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.
Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.
I have said, on a number of occasions, that we could have a lower minimum wage or no minimum wage.
Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.
The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.
I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.
Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.
The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.
Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.
It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.
I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.
I have serious concerns with the discussion around minimum wage because it drives up costs, and it could harm jobs.
By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply.
I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'
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.
Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.
I was a waitress at a local pub. I was really bad with money and it taught me the value of it as I was on minimum wage.
We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.
Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.
Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.
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.
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.
I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
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.
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.
We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.
A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.
In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.
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.