Tom Perez Quotes

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

Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.

Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets of low-wage workers. This would help boost the entire economy - including Walmart's own sales.

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

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.

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to the gym or the yoga studio. They're not sending mom flowers on Mother's day. What good is this person in the economy? If you raise it to $15 an hour, they're doing all of those things.

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.

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

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.

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?

If workers have less money in their pockets to put food on the table, they will be spending less money; your economy will suffer.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.

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.

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

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

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

While Obama's economic policies have failed to spur growth, our anti-poverty programs have long failed to promote upward mobility and move people from welfare to work.

The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is open to raising the minimum wage, the best approach is to grow faster.

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

Raising wages is one of my top priorities.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.