Phil Murphy Quotes

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it will help businesses, too - raising the wage will put more money in people's pockets, which they will pump back into the economy by spending it on goods and services in their communities.

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

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

To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's time to raise the minimum wage.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

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

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

Obama's gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He's got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In fact, the very fact he's talking about the minimum wage is evidence there is no robust job market.

Incremental increases in the minimum wage won't address the underlying skills and investment gaps in Illinois.

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

The impact of a minimum wage depends on how high it is to average wages. If you have too high a minimum wage, it will hurt job creation, and you will have negative job effects.

Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

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

Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

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

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as a whole.

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.

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

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

I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'

I don't know of a single economist who disagrees that when you raise the minimum wage, you kill jobs for the poor.