This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.
I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.
On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.
We should raise the national 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.
I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.
I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.
Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs.
I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.
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.
Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.
No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.
Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.
I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.
If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support a living wage campaign that would shift the minimum wage to something else.
I believe increasing minimum wage it`s not just the minimum wage, it`s a living wage.
