Christina Romer Quotes

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

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

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

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.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

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

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

living wage

The minimum wage is important for many nations

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 believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

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.

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

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

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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

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.

People who work full-time in America should not have to live in poverty - simple as that. Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead. Too many people are finding the rungs on the ladder of opportunity further and further apart.