Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes

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

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.

Americans shouldn't have to hold down two or three jobs to make ends meet.

My mum was working in Walmart for €350 per month, about £280. My father was working as a house painter. We had a difficult situation with money.

Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

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

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.

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when they are not working.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

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.

I live in a working-class community that is struggling at the poverty line, where people who work full-time jobs still at my corner bodega use food stamps. Do you think they care what the stock market's doing today or what the GDP number is? No.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.