Jill Stein Quotes

living wage

We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

I think as a moral question, restaurant workers should get paid more.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

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.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

I would love to see McDonald's pay more money.

I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left-wing? How did that become 'leftie?' That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

They only ask for a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.

Wages, which cannot be considered as a mere commodity must enable the worker and his family to have access to a truly human standard of living in the material, social, cultural and spiritual orders.

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

No man is worth more than 1,000 pounds a year.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

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.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

I do not support a livable wage.