Stacy Brown-Philpot Quotes

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

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.

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

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

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

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.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

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

In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.

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

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

Nothing helps families make end meet than higher wages.

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

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.

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

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

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

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.