Andrew Cuomo Quotes

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

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.

American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

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

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

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

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.

We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

I think that people need a livable wage.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

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

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

An industry that can not pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage earner.