Wage Quotes

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

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.

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.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.