Julian Castro Quotes

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

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

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

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

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.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

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

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

If you work, you should not be poor.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

People working full time should not have to raise their children in poverty.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

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

Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.