Cory Booker Quotes

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

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

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

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

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

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

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.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.