Michelle Lujan Grisham Quotes

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

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

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

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

We have to raise 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.

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

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

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.

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.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

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.

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

Now all of you know that right now the federal minimum wage is a starvation wage.

Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.

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

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

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

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

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.

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.

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.

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