Dwane Casey Quotes

How can anyone live off of minimum 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 family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

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

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

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

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

Just imagine living on 21,000 a year. I mean you have 20 percent of the population doing that. So you don't have to worry about guys like me.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

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

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?

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.

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

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

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.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

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

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

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

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.