Steven Cojocaru Quotes

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

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.

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because you have to make a living. On the other hand, I don't do a better job because I get paid a lot of money. I'm never like, 'I'm not going to work as hard because I'm not getting paid as much.'

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.

The real minimum wage is zero.

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

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 person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

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.

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

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.

The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

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

If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.

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

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

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

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.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.