Andy Stern Quotes

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

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy.

In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

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

[In the 1924 presidential election, campaign contributions from workers to the senator were not as high as had been hoped for by the campaign staff. Those pay checks are all that stand between starvation for those workers and their families. You are asking too much of them.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.

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

Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job.

As Washington prospers, workers suffer.

I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten.

The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to solve it.

The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.