J. B. Pritzker Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

We have to raise 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.

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

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.

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

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

The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

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.

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

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

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

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