Andrew Cuomo Quotes

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

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

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

I do not support a federal minimum wage. I think every state has a different economy, a different cost of living. I don't believe that's the role of the federal government.

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 minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

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

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.

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.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

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.

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

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

My question becomes, 'If we want to empower people with higher pay, there are probably better ways to do it that are more enduring than simply a federal mandate on wage level.'

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.

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

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

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

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

On things like the minimum wage, where cities as well as states are increasingly looking at income disparity, mayors will have, I think, a very strong voice.

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.