Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

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

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage earner.

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

I think that people need a livable wage.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

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

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

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

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

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

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

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.

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

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

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.

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.