Minimum Wage Quotes

The real minimum wage is zero.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

I was making almost minimum wage on 'The Young and the Restless.' But it was my first job, so I accepted my first quote. I had a great time on it, and it obviously led me to better things.

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. Every worker in America should be given respect, dignity and the wages and benefits they need to take care of their family.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

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.

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

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

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

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

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.

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.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

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