Elizabeth Warren Quotes

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 in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor market or unable to care for themselves have a basic income guarantee of about $100 per day.

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

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.

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.

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

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.

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

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

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

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

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

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 believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

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.

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

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

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 most important social welfare program in America is a job.

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

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.