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Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think that if it is.. has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum wage, or if it has to do with lowering prescription drugs for vulnerable citizens.. all of those things are people issues, not Democratic issues or Republican issues. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities. — Thomas Perez

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. — Elizabeth Warren

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Joe Biden

Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking. — Joe Biden

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Tom Harkin

[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity. — Tom Harkin

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By S. E. Cupp

A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs ... Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case? — S. E. Cupp

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Rick Scott

By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a lot of opportunities for companies to prosper in Florida and compete here, and that's what I'm going after. — Rick Scott

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Katrina Vanden Heuvel

On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right. — Katrina Vanden Heuvel

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Barack Obama

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done. — Barack Obama

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Nick Hanauer

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated. — Nick Hanauer

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Edmund Phelps

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs. — Edmund Phelps

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. — Thomas Perez

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By David Rolf

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. — David Rolf

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Bernie Sanders

I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better. — Bernie Sanders

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Thomas Perez

If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage. — Thomas Perez

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By John Sununu

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion. — John Sununu

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Mitt Romney

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Edmund Phelps

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage. — Edmund Phelps

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Marco Rubio

Raising the minimum wage may poll well, but having a job that pays $10 an hour is not the American Dream. And our current government programs, offer at best only a partial solution. They help people deal with poverty, but they do not help them escape it. — Marco Rubio

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Bernie Sanders

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. — Bernie Sanders

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Paul Krugman

Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction. — Paul Krugman

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Sherrod Brown

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Thomas Perez

The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children. — Thomas Perez

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Frank Luntz

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. — Frank Luntz

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Thomas Perez

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed. — Thomas Perez

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Nick Hanauer

Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a lot of administration, you don't have to negotiate anything. It just is what it is. — Nick Hanauer

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Joseph P. Kennedy III

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents. — Joseph P. Kennedy III

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Hillary Clinton

Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs, — Hillary Clinton

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Marco Rubio

If I thought that raising the minimum wage was the best way to help people increase their pay, I would be all for it, but it isn't. If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine. And that means all this automation that's replacing jobs and people is only going to be accelerated. — Marco Rubio

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Matt Gonzalez

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. — Matt Gonzalez

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Christina Romer

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. — Christina Romer

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Nancy Pelosi

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well. — Nancy Pelosi

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Iris Dement

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. — Iris Dement

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Nick Hanauer

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem. — Nick Hanauer

Raising The Minimum Wage Quotes By Hillary Clinton

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work. — Hillary Clinton