Leslie Caron Quotes

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

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.

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.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

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.

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

Low pay is a serious problem, and its victims need a genuine solution.

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.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

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?

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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

I do not support a livable wage.

One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.

People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.