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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 would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.
By cracking down on wage theft, we can make sure workers and taxpayers are not getting ripped off by crooked employers.
Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
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.
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.
Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.
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.
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.
When Atletico wanted to sell me, I was told that I earned too much money and they wanted me off the wage bill. I liked that honesty.
Patents are being used to wage war in the digital world, and as a result, patents have become a toll gate on the road of innovation.
Legally, many contractors are required to pay a prevailing wage. However, bad actors often find ways to get around this requirement.
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.
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.
We deserve quality jobs that pay a living wage, lower college tuition, action on climate change, and comprehensive immigration reform.
There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.
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.
In the 1950s and 1960s, an explosion of great corporate jobs, together with a restricted supply of labor, produced healthy wage growth.
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.
In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.
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.
When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.
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.
With respect to the world of football, I earn a normal wage. But compared to 99.9% of Spain and the rest of the world, I earn an obscene amount.
President Trump has doubled the Child Tax Credit and added thousands back into the average Americans' paycheck through tax cuts and wage growth.
The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public assistance.
Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?
I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.
I was considered the most progressive person the whole time I was in the legislature. I negotiated health care, I negotiated a minimum wage increase.
If you do not ensure that people are being paid a living wage, then you are going to have people who rely on government assistance. It is that simple.
Before the government decides to raise the minimum wage, it must consider the effects of the tax and benefits merry-go-round that affects the low-paid.
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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.
It was a Conservative government that in 2016 introduced the national living wage, giving Britain's lowest-paid workers the biggest pay rise in 20 years.
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on basic civil rights.
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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.