Theresa May Quotes

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

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.

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

Chronic insecurity will not be overcome by minimum wage laws, tax credits, means-tested benefits, or workfare.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

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.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

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.

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

If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

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.

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

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

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

Middle-income wage earners have essentially had no pay increases since 2000.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

We've got to do more to ensure that people who work full time are not living in poverty and that the massive gap between rich and poor - which is fundamentally un-American, as far as I'm concerned - is somehow dealt with.