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It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.
The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.
What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.
The theory that if wages go up, employment goes down isn't a physical law like F=MA. It's a moral law, like 'Bedtime is 9:00 P.M.'
I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
Costco pays their workers good wages with benefits while selling good products at competitive prices and remaining quite profitable.
Legalizing betting would create over a hundred thousand new jobs, over $6 billion in wages, and inject $25 billion into our economy.
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.
Too many families are working incredibly hard, but their wages never seem to go up and their health care bills only get harder to pay.
Let me be blunt, employers do have to raise wages if they can't attract enough employees. That's the free market, that's how it works.
I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.
Illinois will only get economically healthy if we stop focusing on growing minimum wages and start focusing on growing everyone's wages.
Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.
Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That's not a statement, it's a definition.
The global equalization of wages and the exponential growth in technology has created a job-killing machine that's only going to get worse.
Lesser-skilled workers suffer the entire burden of lower wages but capture only a portion of the benefits from lower-priced offshore goods.
When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.
It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.
Workers should not be prevented from bargaining with the companies that help set their wages, benefits, schedules, and workplace conditions.
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.
What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.
If we are to maintain a relevant and just industry, we must all open our eyes to the obvious lack of equality in wages, representation, and access.
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital.
American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.
Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where jobs are.
My mum raised three kids on her own on sweatshop wages of about six bucks an hour so there was a lot of late rent and landlords knocking on the door.
Living in Korea was a big adjustment because a coffee is going to be a little more pricey than what it is in the States. Wages aren't as high either.
New tech explosions create winners and losers, but overall are remarkably positive for the country, middle-class folks, the economy, jobs, and wages.
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it.
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he's got to do is provide it with an objective.
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.
If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.
For TPP to get my vote, it must benefit America's middle class, raise wages, and safeguard the consumer and environmental protections that we rely upon.
My view is we need the best environment for businesses to grow. That is the best opportunity to ensure wages can lift, not artificially but sustainably.
Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.
In the end, we should not forget that playing football is our job. So people should accept that wages will always play a role in a player's decision-making.