Karen Handel Quotes

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

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

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.

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

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

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

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.

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

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.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

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

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.