Bernie Sanders Quotes

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

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

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

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

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

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

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.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

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.

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.

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

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

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

If you work, you should not be poor.

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

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

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

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.

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

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

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

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