Sherwood Boehlert Quotes

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.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

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

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.

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

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.

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.

I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage. I did not say that and that is not something I would consider.

Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

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

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

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

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

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

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

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.

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

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

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

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

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

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 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.