Kate Brown Quotes

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

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

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

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.

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.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

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.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

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

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

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

I think that people need a livable wage.

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.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

My average fan works for about $20 per hour, if they are lucky enough to have a job. And then factoring in insurance, taxes and such, they're maybe bringing home $15 per hour. If my tickets are just under $30, it took them about two hours of their life to make the money to come see my show. Why shouldn't I give them two hours too?

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Income inequity has to be addressed.