Mikie Sherrill Quotes

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

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.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

Workers and students and part-time working parents across New Mexico are taking home too little, trying to stretch dollars as far as they'll go to pay for basic necessities.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

We need to do more to help the men and women across the country who are working hard but still struggling to make ends meet due to low wages and high healthcare costs.

Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends meet.

People can't live on $7.50 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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

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

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.