Kathy Szeliga Quotes

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

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

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Prohibiting Poverty

People working full time should not have to raise their children in poverty.

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.