Nancy Pelosi Quotes

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

No one who works full time and has children should be poor in America.

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.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

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.

The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

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

The working poor is a growing population in this country.

If you work, you should not be poor.

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.

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.

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

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

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.

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.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

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

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

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.

living wage

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

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.