Sherrod Brown Quotes

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

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

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.

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

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

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

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.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

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

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

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.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

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

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

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.