Karen Handel Quotes

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

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

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.

Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

If the price of a burger goes up 5 cents, and the minimum wage that you have received is going up from $7.25 to $15 an hour - and there have been a number of studies that document just how much the price of a burger might go up if you increase the minimum wage. You match the costs, and the benefits far outweigh the costs.

Some states are doing better than others. Some states naturally have stronger economies. So it's not as simple as saying, 'Let's go to $15.' If you do it wrong, you can hurt the very people you're trying to help.

One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.

The impact of a minimum wage depends on how high it is to average wages. If you have too high a minimum wage, it will hurt job creation, and you will have negative job effects.

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

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

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

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

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.

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.